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Enamored With These Beautiful, Young Faces

“It takes a lot for our hearts and our minds and our eyes to get there, where we start viewing groups that look different than us not as groups but as individuals.” [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/105906684" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]...
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Fuels My Ball of Fire

"I'll see people down the hallway, and they'll walk out a door because they know who I am. They don't want to 'catch the gay.'" [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/104956837" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading...
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Baptism: I Was Not Very Religious

"I went to Pastor Char and said, 'Hey. I'd really like to be baptized, but I don't think I'm a Lutheran.' And she looked at me and said, 'Okay. What questions do you have?'" [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48973210" params="" width=" 100%" height="166"...
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I Have This Fear That I Come Off Weird

"The real good friends will pay attention to you no matter what." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48972194" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What kinds of questions would...
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Missing Out

"They don’t come to us. I want to be in a sorority, but they assume I don’t want to be in there because they’re all white. I feel like they lose out." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48842477" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]...
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Core Kind of Turned Out to Be That Way

"Even if the Chinese students couldn’t always understand what was going on… they still felt like a part of our family." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48974819" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this...
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BFFs: Best Foreign Friends

"I have met other international students from my roommate… They’re all pretty cool." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48851164" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation In addition to the questions below, please see How to use the questions for reflection. Clarifying Questions...
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Encountering True Homophobia

"I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I was like, 'Really guys? Really?'” CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE. [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48843588" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom?...
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Recovery

Q: "So you didn’t want to eat, or you didn’t like yourself?" A: "No, it’s a different issue." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48840122" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With...
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