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breaking point; When Deborah Scroggins first went to Darfur, she knew her life would never be the same.

Vogue

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Byline: Deborah Scroggins

Darfur. Everyone is talking about it, from television reporters at CNN to the other mothers in the car-pool line. "How do you feel about Darfur?" they ask. And what I'm actually thinking is how strange it is to hear people at home speaking the name of this place that is charged with meaning for me but that I never thought anyone in Atlanta, with the exception of my husband, would notice, even on a map. But Darfur is not just a province in Sudan anymore, it's a world crisis, one that Colin Powell has called genocide. Given an opportunity to go back, of course I have to take it. If I can help people learn about Sudan, I must do it; that's ...

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