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“Through helping others, I learned that I had always had compassion in me, although I hadn’t known it and couldn’t express it. I learned that if I could feel for others, I might also begin to feel compassion for myself. I was beginning to heal.”

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Book:In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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