Lost and Found

"After seeing all the horrible events that we have seen and going through them, we want to live life and appreciate it always," Kur adds. "We do not want to squander it."

And so they will tape class schedules to their walls, inhale their burritos on lunch breaks and fret about lost time. America is not the paradise they once imagined, but here, despite the economic challenges, confusing gadgets and endless deadlines, they have found opportunities. For this, they are forever grateful -- and ever mindful.

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Out of Africa: Lost Boys Simon Garang (right) and Kur Deng are now students at the University of Colorado.

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"Rest? There is no resting," Simon says. "Perhaps when there is peace in Sudan, I can rest. But now it is not so easy for me to say. There is still so much to do."