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  • Crying and Reclamation

    Originally posted on Love, InshAllah: “Love Wins” I am not always strong. There are times that I experience steep slopes of sadness. This doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, the sorrow arrives as crude, impolite explosions. I don’t have everything together, no matter what type of confidence seeps out of my writing. I…

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  • The Ides of March

    Originally posted on Love, InshAllah: The Ides of March –-(or how girl can write her way to a new life) Last week, snow and ice kept me housebound for the third, and hopefully final time, this winter. This snowfall felt different than the previous ones. It arrived glutinous and sticky and carried a surreal sheen…

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  • Bathrooms Where I Have Cried

    I recently found some personal journals. They took me back to places I needed to go; to places that weren’t completely comfortable to visit but enlightening nonetheless. Two years ago, I left my twelve year, international marriage to a United Nations diplomat from Afghanistan. (I say international because we lived in various countries and dealt

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  • Memoir On My Mind

    I am honored to be one of the top three “winners” of my local O.Henry Magazine’s first memoir competition. The story is a reflection of my rural Southern upbringing and how one event altered the course of my life. I entered the contest on a whim; this was my first time experimenting with a Southern

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