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Everyone thought he would be crippled like her, but he came out big and healthy, a boy who cried loudly, who wanted to nurse all the time. I was born first, before my brother. My aunt who had [...]

She had to take care of her brothers and sister and her sick mother for a long time. That role should have been by tradition her older sister’s but she ran away to the north instead. My [...]

My father says I was born nine months after my mother died. The girls in the village laugh, they say it’s not true. That’s why my back is twisted.