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Dear Doctor,

If you like you can change every inch of me. I'm just a story.
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Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...
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They had always fitted together like pieces of an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) puzzle- the smok...
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She knew he’d be back. No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw...
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They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui...
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NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even wh...
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Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
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The boat that Ammu would use to cross the river. To love by night the man her children loved by day.
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