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By AnonymJennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
A hard red knot glues itself to my ribs like indigestion, the tangled-up knot of all the things I've loved that will be buried one day, all the things I know I am bound to forget.
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By AnonymJennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Every place you go becomes a part of you. But none more so than home.
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By AnonymJennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
I am a woman and a warrior. If you think I can't be both, you've been lied to.
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By AnonymJennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
She had thought the open sea would be flat, like a mirror or a coin. But it had colors and shapes, turning green or black under approaching storm. Sometimes it was red and purple and silver and white gold. It had sharp hedges. It had its tempers, its blue spells, its fits of laughter
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By AnonymJennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
The elegant figures of the constellations spun above them, driven by the wheel of the heavens.
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By AnonymJennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
There is a goodness in the world that got me through, that taught me it's important to know who you are.
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