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Nov 1, 201910 min read
You’ll Understand When You’re Older
We would grow up, and things from our childhood would start making sense. But some things are always going to be beyond our comprehension...
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Oct 30, 20199 min read
Life Is Precious
Behind every proverb, there is experience and reflection. Now, I don’t claim to know it all, but I know what I’ve lived...
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Oct 25, 20196 min read
The Reconstruction of My Life
When one of them disappears, it threatens the whole system, and in my case, my entire being. I was forced to rebuild my life and myself...
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Oct 11, 20198 min read
Fighting Free
Maybe it would have been a lot different if life had stayed peaceful and carefree like when I first came into this world...
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Aug 30, 20198 min read
Life in the Mountains
Located at the extreme north of Pakistan, Nathia Gali is considered to be one of the most beautiful and scenic places in Pakistan...
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Aug 24, 20197 min read
A New Lesson
My parents taught us to work hard, help our neighbors and be respectful of others. My mum worked in an office and...
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Aug 23, 20198 min read
Now I Know the Difference
Girls married right out of high school at 18 in my neighborhood, like an unspoken tradition. I thought I’d follow the same path...
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Aug 22, 20198 min read
Bed of Thorns
A bunch of wildflowers left my hands and dropped upon his grave. It was clear that the goodbyes were final. I was burying my husband...
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Aug 19, 20199 min read
From India to Scotland with Love
Traditionally, Indian families want boys, but as they already had a son, my parents welcomed my birth with all their heart...
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Aug 8, 20198 min read
A Beautiful Life Once More
It’s not wrong to believe that life is unfair and difficult. But the thing is, that’s how it is for everyone...
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Aug 7, 20197 min read
The Courage to Move On
Together, they built a family. I had an unusual childhood as my siblings and I were the only mixed-race children in the town...
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Aug 2, 20198 min read
Strength in the Journey
My parents were both originally from the northern region of Vietnam but fled south to escape communist rule...
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Jul 26, 20196 min read
Embracing My Differences
My parents had a marriage of love. I say this because my dad hails from India where he first had an arranged marriage to a girl he barely...
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Jul 25, 20198 min read
Off the Island
They say that life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. In my life—in chasing my dreams, in fighting to provide...
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Jul 18, 20199 min read
Tomorrow May Never Come
Simple routines on a farm had me dreaming of life beyond our vast fields. I decided at a young age that I would love to travel the world...
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Jul 17, 20198 min read
Life After the Change
A few months into my first year of college, my mother called my sister and me into her room. From the tone in her voice, anyone could...
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Jul 16, 20197 min read
Woman Within
My father, a labor union leader who was tangled up in domestic politics, married at the young age of 17. But how could he not?...
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Jul 9, 20198 min read
Without the Vows
By Georgia, my parents got divorced. After seeing their marriage decay, I stopped believing in love. I stopped believing that I would be...
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Jul 5, 20197 min read
Love Prevails
That all changed in the summer of 1941, when the Second World War hit our snowy streets. Slowly, food became a luxury...
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Jun 24, 20197 min read
An Innate Survival
Growing up in the 1980s, we spent our days running off with neighborhood friends, only returning home when the hum of the streetlights ...
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