Walking on common ground

Their lives began 14 years and 5,900 miles apart - not just on different continents but in almost different worlds. Clara DiNicola was born in 1917 in a village near Chieti, Italy; Tomoko Hara in 1931 in the metropolis of Kyoto, Japan. (Full article: 811 words)

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