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Mar 10, 20218 min read
A True Fighter
| This is the 565th story of Our Life Logs® | My story begins amid sad circumstances in the 1960s. My parents were both born in India and...
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Dec 16, 20208 min read
Through the Storm
That was it. I threw the dish I was holding right into the TV. And then another. Another. I threw every dish at that game until the sink was
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Dec 7, 20209 min read
Virtue Above All Else
With a straight face my mother replied, “It would have been better if you had let me die.”
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Nov 9, 20207 min read
In the Suffering: A COVID-19 Story
And for a month, my heart was as empty as my home. I locked myself in my room and stared at the wall, wondering if, within the details
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Oct 30, 20207 min read
Holding onto Hope: A COVID-19 Story
| This is the 544th story of Our Life Logs® | I don’t know if my story even matters, one of an illiterate woman from the slums of...
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Oct 12, 20206 min read
We Shall Reunite: A COVID-19 Story
| This is the 540th story of Our Life Logs® | I used to always believe that everything happens for a good reason and that you have...
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Apr 15, 20207 min read
I Will Miss You Forever
My parents waited anxiously for my birth as I was their first child. They loved me like no other and dotted over me, but our poverty...
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Feb 3, 202010 min read
The Memories We Pass On
Each time we visited the hospital with the fear that this would be the time, the moment life would leave my father...
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Jan 27, 20208 min read
No, Depression Can’t Have Me
Growing up in a very strict Christian family, I was expected to settle down and start a family. As I waited for Mr. Right...
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Jan 17, 20209 min read
It’s the Baby
Even now I’m still stunned when I think of the way it all went so fantastically to hell in front of my eyes...
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Aug 29, 20198 min read
Home Is What We Feel
I loved my mom, but I didn’t get much time with her because she had bad lungs. She already had asthma, but her job only worsened...
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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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Jun 17, 20197 min read
I Buried a Piece of My Soul
My family got smaller when I was 12 after my dad became suddenly ill. He was rushed to hospital and died four months later...
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Jun 14, 20198 min read
When Memories Come Alive
I thought I had come alive again and walked away from the past that haunts me. But you see, that past, it fastens itself to me...
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Jun 10, 20197 min read
Until We Meet Again
When it happened, everyone claimed that the grief would only last a year until I was able to move on, so I consoled myself with this...
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Mar 15, 20196 min read
Claire’s Song
I had good, rowdy mates to play Cricket with and go to raucous Saturday morning kids’ movies with, and I went to a private British school...
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Feb 25, 20198 min read
To Rebuild
I was born in 1987 and grew up in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria with a younger sister and hard-working, loving parents who encouraged me...
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Feb 5, 20196 min read
Stepping into Big Farming Boots
I grew up feeling like an only child, as my siblings were much older. My relationship with my siblings was good, but I didn’t see them...
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Jan 22, 20197 min read
To Rise
In 2008, my whole world imploded. Everything I thought was supposed to take place in my life, bar the details, was blown to smithereens...
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Jan 19, 20199 min read
The Thinnest of Threads
I’ve always heard people say that nothing good ever happens after midnight. For the longest time I found that to be true of my birth...
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