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“You know the saying chocolate makes you feel better. It’s not a cliché, it’s a fact! You know when the world is upside down and it rains bombs. I used to pray so hard that this country Yemen would never run out of chocolate.”

Photographer Thana Faroq documents the unsung heroes of the war in Yemen, where people dream of being able to enjoy everyday pleasures that the rest of us living in peace take for granted.

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