Holly Hubbard Preston

Writer & Unaffiliated Humanist

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Mar 16, 2017 · 2 min

Captured and Lost — Storied Aleppo

It’s a Wednesday morning in mid-December. I sit eating breakfast alone at my kitchen table, listening to the news while glancing at the day’s headlines in the New York Times. Ten time zones away, Eastern Aleppo is falling to Russian-backed Syrian government troops…

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Nov 19, 2016 · 3 min

Wretched but Welcome — Holding Lady Liberty to Account

Nearly two decades ago I accompanied a friend to the remote village in Southern Mexico where she’d grown up. At 17, Graciela crossed illegally into the United States. This was her first trip home in ten years.

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Nov 9, 2016 · 2 min

One Wall Falls, Another Rises

Nine time zones away from where I sit tonight someone in Germany is awaking to celebrate the 27th Anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. This at the same time the American populous is coming to terms with a new president who has pledged to build a massive barrier wall…

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