All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put … - Nnedi Okorafor

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People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

Nnedi Okorafor

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

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Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.

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We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

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