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Fishermen left their nets. Children stopped chasing the stray dogs. Even the old man who had been drunk since Tuesday sat up straight. The sound was not loud. It was deep—like the earth remembering something it had forgotten. It was the sound of the enslaved praying. The sound of Indigenous children counting stars through prison bars. The sound of mothers singing lullabies during floods, while holding their babies above the rising water. —a hearty black bean and pork stew—is a