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True accompaniment, on the other hand, “does not privilege technical expertise above solidarity or compassion or a willingness to tackle what may seem to be insuperable challenges,” Farmer declared. 

Instead, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti taught him “that we still do not possess the ability to translate goodwill and resources into robust responses to disasters natural and unnatural.”

“To accompany someone,” he said, “is to go somewhere with him or her, to break bread together, to be present on a journey with a beginning and an end…There’s an element of mystery and openness….I’ll share your fate for awhile, and by ‘awhile’ I don’t mean ‘a little while.’ 

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