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Look At Me

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It was a typical Saturday afternoon, which meant that Tom was shirtless in his living room rolling weed. He didn’t even like smoking weed that much. Mostly he smoked it because he was bored. And he was bored most …

Daughters

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There was a time I was listening to a lot of John Mayer. A lot. The whole of 2012, and bits of 2013, just Mayer. I was suffering from loss. I wasn’t eating well and when I mustered appetite …

How To Wash A Baby

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“I recently spoke to a former classmate for the first time since 1991, just after finishing primary school.”

“You finished primary school in 1991!” He gasped.

“Yeah, I’m 47.”

“You are 47!”

“Yeah.”

“I was two years old when …

Neema And Nathan

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“I didn’t need to wear a bra until I was 18. This was a year after I got my first period, and 14 years before I got into a serious relationship, and decided I wanted to have babies at …

Nine Months

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I love a good love story. And a good love story isn’t good if it doesn’t have pain and desperation running in its veins. It’s not a good love story if one of the characters doesn’t sigh and say, …

January Was Peaceful

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The hardest thing I went through last year was in June, when I followed my wife to Diani, where she had gone for work,” he says over the phone. To be clear, “followed” implies she went ahead, and he …