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We're told to plug our nosesto escape the smells. Manure.Rot.Poverty?Reality.Holly Bodger
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...you see what you wantand you want what you see, but if I have anything to say about it, that willnever beme.Holly Bodger
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Nani’s allegiance is to her angerandangerruns deeper than blood and skin. It’s set in boneand bone, once broken, neverheals the same.Holly Bodger
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Have to wait my turn. Have to follow the rules. Have to smile like I agree. Have to Have to Have to Have to Choose him.Holly Bodger
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The president is not at all like the powerful icon I imagined her to be. She’s more like I remember Amma: small and delicate with a sari that dances behind her as she walks. Of course, the president is clad in white, the color that shows eternal mourning of a lost child, while Amma never wore white. She wore reds and oranges and deep greens. Colors of celebration, of happiness. Perhaps she wears white now. Now that I am dead to her. .Holly Bodger
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My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.Holly Bodger