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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

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I Dedicate This Book to a Slow and All Defunct Internet Cafe

I dedicate this book to a slow and all defunct internet cafe in Nairobi because it set me on the path to meet work with Mary Jenny. She was studying in Indiana and spending a lot of time in Uganda when we first met. We hatched a very ambitious kind of crazy and like plan basically what it was we were gonna like find the names and all the kids were born like 20 years 30 years ago in the region. I think she talked to me in spite of the fact that I was wearing a suit maybe because I knew a little bit about the war which most people didn't most people were totally ignorant. And then we had a fling for that week and then we didn

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