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SGV’s electric motorcycle donated to the Don Bosco Catholic Parish of Lilongwe, Malawi (“Last Words,” Feb./ March 2022) is going strong, visiting three small teaching centers in one morning, which would have cost the parish 8,000 Malawi kwacha using taxis. Fr. Joseph Czerwinski thanks Portland Magazine’s readers: “It is indeed a big help. Using it we hope to lower the cost of transport to the outstations and increase the frequency of visiting the distant communities.”

Pictured here is Chifunilo Chikwali, who’s just earned his EV technician’s certificate.

Hiding in Maine. With Us.

“Death to the Dracu grandson!” In terror, Iordana Ceausescu of Romania disappeared in secret to Old Orchard Beach with her son while the world

searched for them. She lived a buried life

among us for five years. Drawn from 800

hours of unique interviews with Iordana. Colin W. Sargent’s Red Hands— “an astounding account of the Romanian revolution in the voice of Ceausescu’s

daughter-in-law.” –Martin Goodman in the Morning Star

“Brilliant. If the novel is Macbeth then

it is Romeo and Juliet too, for the pounding heart of the book is a great love story that never fails to move. A tale from last

century and a warning for this one, Red Hands is a novel of rare power that teaches us much about Romania and even more

about ourselves.”

–D. D. Johnston