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Manalapan, Fla.; Chicago; New York City: out of Africa.(Brief article)
American Theatre, February, 2006 by Renner, Pamela
> FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, MELANIE MARNICH WENT to Tanzania for a brief stint of volunteer work. She helped to prepare a medical clinic and clear a road. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After about three weeks, she returned to Minnesota, her mind and senses scrambled by the huge paradoxes of the trip: "The epiphany, if I had one while I was there, was that a bunch of Minnesotans went to a place to 'help' people who have been there for eons." Marnich quickly realized that her own altruistic intentions were naive compared to the inassimilable reality of Africa, the original ...
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