She said: "We didn't notice for a long time. We just didn't know. We could feel and see that things were changing, but we didn't know how close we came to loosing it all. You know how one day just follows another and in the blink of an eye you find yourself at the end of a lifetime like the end of a book. Well, we were loosing our stories; all of the stories about who we are, where we came from, who our people were, and where they had gone. I guess, really, that we just became lazy. There were so many things to distract us from what was important until one day we woke up and found the things most sacred to us were gone. They had just blown away be a wind in the night. I shutter to think how close we came. It is a frightening thought: We almost lost our stories."

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