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Rita Leistner: Strength Like a Drowning Person
![Strength Like a Drowning Person Fifty-eight-year-old Mayada, a patient at the hospital, shows how she does her daily exercises to keep fit. “Don’t be afraid,{quote} she said. {quote}I feel safer in here than out there. I don’t want contact with the conflict in the outside world. I hate war, these many wars. But I do like life. Sometimes one finds strength, like a drowning person.”](http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/4bd5ebf287c7d/images/RitaWeb002-2.jpg)
Strength Like a Drowning Person,
BAGHDAD - 09/06/04
Fifty-eight-year-old Mayada, a patient at the hospital, shows how she does her daily exercises to keep fit. “Don’t be afraid," she said. "I feel safer in here than out there. I don’t want contact with the conflict in the outside world. I hate war, these many wars. But I do like life. Sometimes one finds strength, like a drowning person.”
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