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Months into the coronavirus pandemic, many people are wondering: How do you find the strength to keep going when everything seems bleak? 

, a Sudanese refugee now living in the U.S., shares his moment of deepest despair — and how he pulled through.

Malaka Gharib is an NPR editor and the author and illustrator of “

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir

,” about being first-generation Filipino Egyptian American.

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He'd been separated from his parents. He was living in a refugee camp in Sudan. And then a snake bit him. Manyang Reath Kher, now living in the U.S., shares his moment of deepest despair — and how he pulled through.

A 'Lost Boy' teaches a lesson for the pandemic: How to be resilient

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