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Pulse: Uniting black and white South Africans through 'living books'

Maia Marie wants to end the separation between black and white people in South Africa, even 20 years after the end of Apartheid. So she created "The Mobile Living Library," a project in which young South Africans become open books, telling their personal stories to strangers. She hopes that by swapping stories, South Africans can realize they are all part of one society.

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