An Afghani With One Leg and a Broken Heart Driving My Uber and Redeeming His Tragedy

Devon Berry
1 min readJan 16, 2020

June 24, 1984

A “dirty orange glow” appeared in the night sky.

It found a big-hearted man sneaking-saving children across the border to escape the Russians.

It took his leg.

It broke his heart.

January 16, 2020

He wrote his way out of his brokenness, but not out of his memory.

In 2,000 ways he redeems the moment, the torture, the pain…

But not the children.

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Devon Berry
Devon Berry

Written by Devon Berry

Devon Berry recently served as clinical associate professor and executive associate nursing dean at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing.

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