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I remember exactly the day Kennedy was shot. My mother was wearing a black twin-set of jumpers, it was probably spring, or autumn, and we were watching television, and my mother was crying.
I wasn’t even born the day that Kennedy was shot, but this memory is so vivid in my mind, that I reall...
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The flight to Melbourne has been very long. She knew it in advance, but still, she feels exhausted and overwhelmed with fears, sensations and curiosity. It has been three months ...
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I envy all those women sitting together on trams, mothers and daughters, pushing prams and carrying bags, laughing and talking secrets. We never shared secrets, my mother and I, but I am living abroad and I miss her nevertheless. I see her in her best dress, walking beside me, the handbag crossed over her chest,...
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White, western, educated, privileged people. I mean, as a woman I am a little less privileged, but still – I cannot complain. There is a name to describe people like me, we are not migrants, we are expats. Sounds so much better, don’t you agree? By saying ‘expat’ you do not envisage war, famine, po...
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Back then I only had this... feeling, something was different but I didn’t know what. It was the colours, a lack of colours on the streets like you only see in a black and white movie. I know it now, crossing Alexander Platz and squinting my eyes and trying to remember how it was before, I mean, it is s...
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I’m sorry. I am really sorry. I didn’t mean to. I don’t know, it would be great if there were an instruction manual that they give you when you migrate to a new country, you know, just a page, something, with all the rules that you are supposed to know when you ar...
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It’s raining. It must be around 11am. I’m hiding inside the sleeping bag, inside the tent, listening. It has been raining since I arrived here, last night, and I still haven’t been able to go outside to look around. I am...
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There is an old amplifier in my grandmother’s backyard. I’ve asked, but nobody knows how it ended up there. My grandmother’s backyard is not a place where you would expect to find an amplifier. Hens live inside it. In the backyard. I spent part of my childhood contemplating the dark...
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“We are from Nigeria” answers the mother politely, but the pious women aren’t listening all taken by the beautiful baby, passed from hand...
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Somewhere I read that they can smell your fear just like dogs, and that they are attracted by your fear, and that they come to punish you. Well, maybe the bit about punishment wasn't in the article, and I don't know whether they have a sense of smell. But then, how do we explain that I seem to be the only...
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She has given me a letter. To give him. And she wants me to ask him why he doesn’t sleep home any more. I don’t want to. But if I tell her so, she will be angry with me. And cry again. I am scared. He doesn’t hit me. But I know that he doesn’t want the letter, and doesn’t want me to ask him. I don’t know what is happening. I want to stay alone, or at...
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The soldiers came at lunchtime.
My mother was preparing soup. It all happened so fast. She didn’t have the time to turn off the stove. We were terrified. We ran from the back door, just like that, as we were.
The j...
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Don't believe it when they say that if you're drowning, you see your life flashing in front of your eyes. I'm telling you, because I'm there, my body floats uselessly, carried up and down by a desperate desire not to die. And in my eyes, in my thoughts, there is not my first kiss. My g...
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