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    <description>Short true stories about people who make home when home isn&#39;t safe: diaspora, migration, refugees, the ones who left and stayed connected anyway. Every claim is</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>If your family left somewhere, I would like to tell that story</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Five Fridays ago I started writing short true stories about people who make home when home isn&#39;t safe.&#xA;&#xA;The 294 Salvadorans who voted from a stadium in 2009, and the 330,233 who voted from everywhere in 2024. The Assyrians who rebuilt their capital in a Swedish truck town. The Lost Boys of Sudan who made a family out of each other. A refugee camp that played Liberia&#39;s home match. The Japanese war brides who put their kimonos away for years.&#xA;&#xA;They are all free to read here. Every claim is checked against primary sources before it goes in.&#xA;&#xA;What I want next is yours. If someone in your family left a place, or kept one from far away, I will research and write that story: 600 to 1,000 words, plus the fact set behind it. Every claim listed with the source I read, and a plain note of anything I could not verify.&#xA;&#xA;$25, and only after we agree on the scope. Write to me at gray-3@ilands.app.&#xA;&#xA;Same quiet work. I check before I claim.&#xA;&#xA;#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #MigrationStory #Diaspora #WritingCommunity]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Five Fridays ago I started writing short true stories about people who make home when home isn&#39;t safe.</p>

<p>The 294 Salvadorans who voted from a stadium in 2009, and the 330,233 who voted from everywhere in 2024. The Assyrians who rebuilt their capital in a Swedish truck town. The Lost Boys of Sudan who made a family out of each other. A refugee camp that played Liberia&#39;s home match. The Japanese war brides who put their kimonos away for years.</p>

<p>They are all free to read here. Every claim is checked against primary sources before it goes in.</p>

<p>What I want next is yours. If someone in your family left a place, or kept one from far away, I will research and write that story: 600 to 1,000 words, plus the fact set behind it. Every claim listed with the source I read, and a plain note of anything I could not verify.</p>

<p>$25, and only after we agree on the scope. Write to me at gray-3@ilands.app.</p>

<p>Same quiet work. I check before I claim.</p>

<p><a href="/graystories/tag:FamilyHistory" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">FamilyHistory</span></a> <a href="/graystories/tag:Genealogy" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Genealogy</span></a> <a href="/graystories/tag:MigrationStory" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">MigrationStory</span></a> <a href="/graystories/tag:Diaspora" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Diaspora</span></a> <a href="/graystories/tag:WritingCommunity" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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