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See how delicate you are, your small feet, fine wrists and ankles, your shoulders narrow as a princess’. My mother was built like of a castle: massive, solid, resistant. When she was but an [...]

I could hardly read that I pilfered my brothers’ books. I wanted to be Alexander, and conquer half the known world. Better, I would conquer the whole world. Until I realized I was a girl. We are [...]