I have
no ancestral
connection
or any kind
of connection
that I know
of, but I just
really felt
that I was
home.”
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GREATEST
PERSON OF
THE WEEK
Beverly Berndt
What Money
Can Buy
BY EMMA
DIAB
THE KIDS CALL HER Auntie Bev,
though they’re not related. She’s
not from the same country or even
from the same continent. Her religion is different, her skin, too. But
even before Auntie Bev — Beverly
Berndt to most people — met anyone upon arriving in the Republic
of the Gambia in West Africa, she
says she felt as if she were home.
Berndt, a 61-year-old mother
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANIEL BEDELL
HUFFINGTON
09.30.12