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First Place
Randy Olson
Aurora / National Geographic Society
"Guyana Rivers"  

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A woman named Deseret runs a store at the top of Kaieteur falls and is learning to price diamonds. She doesn't have choice. She inherited the operation after her husband was sent to prison for shooting two men in a diamond dispute.
 
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