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Chris La Tray's avatar

This is hitting hard today, Nia, so much in line with so many other things I've been thinking about and questioning lately in my own approach, my own efforts to "walk the walk." Substack is feeling like more and more of a compromise to me and I need to cogitate on it. From one sickie to another though, I'm glad you're feeling a little better. We need you.

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Swarnali Mukherjee's avatar

“a world where leaving means to wander freely, rather than being forced to flee—whether on foot or in the worlds of our own imaginations.” This spoke so deeply to me Nia. My grandparents were refugees of a ruthless partition war and even if I am raised away from the traumas of being a survivor, I am aware of the pain and vacancy that human invented borders creates specially if you were forced to leave your country and land behind never to return to it again. I have seem both my grandmothers live with it all their lives. Thank you for this poignant piece Nia. 💜

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