Her mother is from Kenya. Her father is from Germany. She has lived in both countries, plus the US. And 20-year-old Mayannah has thought a lot about what will bring peace to the world.
with contributions from William D. Ansley, Zina Bauman, Renée Bogrand Alton, Sandra Justad
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I started to pray about the threat of terrorism, I felt almost paralyzed because I was thinking more from the standpoint of "What can I, just one person, do in the face of a whole system devoted to hate and destruction?
If I were asked to name the significant impression from this experience with my two daughters, it would have to be the contrast between the terror and helplessness we felt when we discovered that they had drunk rat poison, and the fresh feeling of love and normality that pervaded our thoughts after visiting the Christian Science practitioner.
