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By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. on
June 19, 2025
Gratitude for Kindness as Ethiopians Do

Trader Joe’s was crazy crowded on an April Saturday morning when I went to stock up on groceries. Flowers nearly flew into grocery carts with shoppers dashing to grab the popular camellia plants, redolent with tropical perfume. It was the eve of Easter, the end of Passover — time for final Seders — and, as I learned while checking out, the eve of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Easter.

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