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'Amanda Madụmere
'Amanda Madụmere

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Feb 26, 2022

Lagos will welcome anyone. Except those that it doesn’t.

Lagos Will Welcome Anyone, Except Those It Doesn’t. Years ago, my friend and I began to search for an apartment. We were two young people green and excited about the prospects of finally leaving the comfort of our parents’ houses to launch into our diverse futures. He had just gotten…

Lagos

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Lagos will welcome anyone. Except those that it doesn’t.
Lagos will welcome anyone. Except those that it doesn’t.
Lagos

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Jul 17, 2020

On “The Palestinian Sperm Smugglers”.

a review of https://www.topic.com/the-palestinian-sperm-smugglers i am deeply moved by this story. and this also begs the question of my knowledge of the impacts of the Palestine-Isreal conflict. *mental note to research further on this* this reminds of the 6th season of OITNB where Blanca is trying to get pregnant (in…

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Apr 29, 2020

“if there is rest, i want it.”

image by Vladislav Lisov TW: depression and suicide ideation. i like to believe it’s no coincidence that the day i pick to end my life, i fall ill. my head throbs and i feel strength leaving my body when i make it out of the sheets — i am unable…

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“if there is rest, i want it.”
“if there is rest, i want it.”

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Mar 5, 2019

But It’s Not Just Hair

I cut off six inches (one year’s worth of hair growth) from my hair on Sunday, the 25th of November, 2018. My host had gone for “Christ, The King” procession, only to return to find an "absorbed Amanda furiously chopping off her hair in front of the dressing mirror." …

Hair

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But It’s Not Just Hair
But It’s Not Just Hair
Hair

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Feb 27, 2019

Random But True.

"what is the thing that has remained consistent about you over the years?" i cannot think of anything. my weight, maybe? i am not sure. "you're not thinking deep enough." i am just 22. obviously, not a lot has changed about me. there's no single correct answer. "you say 'just…

Love

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Random But True.
Random But True.
Love

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Jul 31, 2016

Within this cave, there’s a man gnashing his teeth against the walls.

Within this cave, there’s a man gnashing his teeth against the walls. There’s blood —Oh! The blood! And then there’s the sound, unlike any sound you have ever heard —nor should ever hear. The sound of bone against solid earth. It echoes and becomes modified by the reverberations. At the mouth of this cave is another man, tapping his feet along to the sweet, sweet music coming from within the cave. He wonders why on earth a violinist with such sweet music would play from the inside of a cave.

Pain

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Within this cave, there’s a man gnashing his teeth against the walls.
Within this cave, there’s a man gnashing his teeth against the walls.
Pain

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