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don’t have a face. I am invisible here. I have become part of the city. It has absorbed me. It is like we have been stripped of our homeland but instead of being given a new identity, we are left with a gaping hole.”https://wandersandrambles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/dsc_0095.jpgDSC_0095“You think I want to be doing this? You think when I was a little boy, I dreamed of selling leather bags to rich people who try to haggle the price so low that I lose money? Sure, I have my little shop, I am very lucky. But I am so alone here, not taken seriously or treated with respect. My family is a world away and no one knows me here. No one wants to know me here.”https://wandersandrambles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/dsc_0340.jpgDSC_0340“The hardest thing I ever did was leave The Gambia. It was terrifying. I didn’t know what I would find once I entered Europe, if I would be okay. I just trusted that things would be brighter on the other side.”https://wandersandrambles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/dsc_0370.jpgDSC_0370“We have to support one another. And no, I’m not talking about the African community supporting its members and the Indian community supporting its members and the Florentine community supporting its members, I’m talking about every human being supporting every other human being. We are all interconnected and to ignore that is a death sentence.”https://wandersandrambles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/dsc_0498.jpgDSC_0498“The kids notice us. They aren’t afraid. They like our colorful dashiki tops and the fun toys we sell. They are too young to hate. That gives me hope. Maybe the future will be okay, one day.”https://wandersandrambles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/dsc_0661.jpgDSC_0661“There are so many people constantly moving through Florence: tourists, students, immigrants. You can never build a constant support system because we’re all moving around so much. One day your friends stop showing up at the local coffee bar and you never see them again. It happens a lot. One day I’ll leave, too. That’s how it works.”https://wandersandrambles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/dsc_0814.jpgDSC_0814“This is my favorite time and my favorite view of the city. The light shines just right on all the buildings and everything is golden. It feels hopeful. It reminds me of my family back home in Sierra Leone. They see the same sun setting on the horizon that I do. I feel closer to them whenever I watch the sunset.”https://wandersandrambles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/dsc_1089-3.jpgDSC_1089 3“It seems cutthroat with all of us selling the same things and shouting at the tourists to get their selfie sticks from us, but we are all here for the same reasons, really. We do this to support our mothers, our sisters, our wives, our daughters. 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