“So we decided... We built the altar out of mud. ...[T]he whole community is coming together to build it. ...And then the ramming started. ...The people started to bring in their own elements ...[S]omeone ...said, "Oh, I'm from France, and I was a soldier in Algeria, and my mother gave me that... amulet in... war time and it protected me..." ...The [homesick] Indian nuns ...brought a piece of Indian earth ...putting it in ... [and] starting to cry. So... earth is much more than a building material. It's... an emotional element...”

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