The women have tears in their eyes. I have been with them for barely two hours, I have barely even spoken to them, yet they are saying goodbye to me with tears in their eyes. They sing to me, a hymn in their own language.
“May God bless you…’til we meet again.”
I have come to them over the mountains of Guizhou: here to their tiny church in the hills.
They are the Miao people, one of the dozen different ethnic groups in this province, one of the poorest in all of China.
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