Poorly Mapped
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Inside my family’s home, I could lay full claim to being an Ethiopian; on the streets of Addis Ababa, however, I had to contend with the obvious facts.
June 3, 2019
Geneva, 1959
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I couldn’t seem to get hold of the language that everyone else was using so casually.
June 3, 2019
Hard Seat
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Ah, the hubris of the young English speaker whose knowledge of Chinese consisted, in my case, of being able to count to ten.
June 3, 2019
Stonehenge
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In their attractive, polished faces, I saw that Stonehenge was as familiar to them as having a gun held to my face was to me.
June 3, 2019
Hereafter, Faraway
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My eternal scene takes place in a faraway country, the one in which I was born and of which I have no memory.
June 3, 2019
