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Cold Majuro Snow

by Darren Dillman

Enni Bilimon, the last Marshallese survivor of the Castle Bravo nuclear test, steps off the chipped concrete porch and maneuvers around the papaya and pandanus trees and sees the children dancing on the beach of the lagoon, swirling with their arms spread out, mouths open, faces tilted toward the clouds, catching with their tongues the first cold flakes of snow in Majuro’s history, spinning and hopping on little black and brown feet and yelping and hollering with the boys shirtless and the girls wearing floral-patterned homemade dresses called guams and dancing because, to them, the snow is something to celebrate. Continue reading

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