When President Obama comes to Belfast, he's expected to praise a country at peace and call for walls that separate Irish Catholics and British Protestants to come tumbling down. Barely a 10-minute walk from where the U.S. leader is speaking Monday, those walls have kept growing in size and number throughout two decades of slow-blooming peace. Residents today on both sides of so-called "peace lines" - barricades of brick, steel and barbed wire that divide neighborhoods, roads and even one Belfast playground - insist the physical divisions must stay to keep violence at bay.
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