"She is a soldier trapped inside a barbed-wire fence, but she is still at war and the battlefield is her own body, and perhaps, she has come to realize as a prisoner, that is where it has always been." - Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King Maybe there's a reason why there's night and day, so that those who are lonely won't feel all by their self. So they would find comfort in the dark skies, so they would find the darkness around them as companion, so they would look forward to the sun coming down.As an illegitimate child, darkness became my mother, my sister and my friend. Darkness became all that I have, and nights became promises.It's the only time of day that
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