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    GIRL BOSS

    The women in my family are bosses. It is ingrained in them, and so they marry men that accept that truth. It is a truth that eve...

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    COULD NOT

    Nobody knows what is wrong with me. They debate and murmur and speculate, they have false eureka moments. I cannot eat, I do not...

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    THESE STREETS

    There is a man outside. He has a stick, a bowl and a sack. The sack is made from hemp, Grandma says those are the best kind of s...

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    DREADLOCKS

    I like dreadlocks.  My mother hates them. My father is indifferent. My sister says they look like tiny spikes atop my head. I ha...

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    TWINtuition

    1. Touch your toes. Bend over and touch your toes. Feel the energy coursing through your body, feel your limbs twisting and turn...

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    NGO

    "You don't know who your friends are." I remembered this line out of all the things that Aunt Amaka had said to me...

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    BALANCE

    His arms were unequal, providing him with an uneven gait. One arm stopped where his elbow would be normally, and then the other ...

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    AUGUST!

    I have experienced new things recently. Some good, some bad, some neutral like Switzerland.  I keep equating neutral to Switzerl...

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