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Haji ali in the inspiring book of three cups of tea by greg mortenson, is about one mans journey to making a difference one child at a time. Kyra has grown up in an isolated fundamentalist community never questioning that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. She enjoyed this honest, positive, moving look into the villages of north pakistan. The program alleged several inaccuracies in three cups of tea, and its sequel, stones. Three cups of tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. After i listened to the whole story i found out the author is being sued for making a lot of it up and defrauding donors.
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