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Big Cuter and I, ably assisted by Elizibeth and her access to The Firefighter's truck, delivered most of G'ma's furniture and furnishings to the-happiest-family-in-Tucson-right-now.  I found them through a classmate at The Humanities Seminars program down at the UofA. The father, a member of the wrong tribe, spent nine years in prison in Rwanda. After his release, he and his wife and three of their five children escaped to Malawi.  Two sons had managed to flee earlier; they lived abroad, wondering.   After nine more years in a resettlement camp, they were chosen,  by the IRC ,  to start again in Tucson. Do you know the International Rescue Committee ? Their website draws you right in: Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein.  It's barebones, which is fitting since only 5% of their funds  go to administration .  The benefits offered to refugees are not forever entitlements.  This family was looking at eviction in Januar...