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Nov 29, 20187 min read
Seeking the Light
My parents were not rich, but we had enough to go around. My dad was a businessman, and my mom taught at a primary school. In the absence...
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Nov 28, 20186 min read
The Truth About Wealth
My father refused to work because he believed if we had too much money, we would be damned, so my mother and I would cut dry wood to sell...
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Nov 13, 20186 min read
More Than the Struggle
My childhood was a long-term nightmare that I couldn’t wake up from. My father was very violent and abusive, so I never had a chance...
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Nov 9, 20187 min read
Onward!
People around me see a beautiful picture of my life. They see a young entrepreneur who owns a nice flat and went to Dubai for her...
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Oct 24, 20187 min read
I Will Carry You Through the Darkness
The car was gone, and all our things were destroyed. I stood in front of our rented house and panicked wondering what to do. We didn’t...
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Sep 26, 20187 min read
Until the Tears Dry
I weighed a little over two pounds. I was so premature that no one thought I would survive, but God had different plans for me...
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Sep 13, 20186 min read
The Golden Path
Despite being the nation’s capital, the city was very poor. I saw beggars in the streets every day, and my own neighbors could barely...
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Aug 31, 20186 min read
What Was Missing
My mother was still a student when she had me and literally had to take her final exams with me crying my lungs out next to her...
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Aug 28, 20188 min read
The Will to Survive
I was the eldest child in my family. We went on a long sea voyage to Malaya, a then-British colony in Southeast Asia. My parents settled...
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Aug 28, 20186 min read
A Spirit of Survival
I learned what it meant to survive at a young age. I waited patiently for my father to escape death, and from then on, I was determined...
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Feb 23, 20188 min read
The Slum Life
The north is prosperous while most of the south is impoverished. We lived on the southern side of the province. My family was immensely...
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Feb 12, 20185 min read
A Long Ride
After her husband, my grandfather, left her a few years into their young marriage, she decided to raise their two daughters, my mother...
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Dec 21, 20174 min read
When Everything Falls on You
Even though my parents got divorced when I was in kindergarten, they ended on such good terms that there was not too much struggle for me...
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