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The Bruzzeze-Correa familia is here tonight; they will be here until Friday morning. These girls are just wonderful -- so adorable and funny and smart. Their parents are pretty great guests, too.

Helene O'S spoke today at the Coalition of Catholic Organizations Against Human Trafficking; I wish everyone had the chance to hear her. It's just heartbreaking, terrible stuff -- the horrible things that poverty forces people to do. How can so many people believe that women are that expendable? How are we still stuck with this? ("We." As if I share these women's agony.)

I gave Helene a ride from the USCCB to some State Department building on G Street, and tried to impress on her the critical situation of staffing in our office, though there's not much she can do about it.  I guess I just wanted to get it out of my system to someone in Maryknoll who might recognize the position that we are in: short staffed in a dire way.

This afternoon I had this phone call with some folks who are working with Marie B on some tool? Something? for hunger/agriculture advocates. I honestly don't understand what they're talking about. I was sure there wasn't anything I could say that would help them, but all they did was ask me about our work and our "audience," and that's easy enough to answer. Good-on-me: I offhandedly mentioned Faith in Public Life, and it turns out they were quite happy to learn about it; might help them out. So, go me.

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