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Lethokuhle Msimang
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The Frightened
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“I don't mean to go on about my body this way, but it remembers things that I've forgotten. My face is blistered and I've cut my hair â€� in hopes that it might grow again, as it was; before your sister scraped the skin off my neck, and you denied you ever knew me, disgraced me. I have broken down before, but never with the weight of ten years on my body.”
― The Frightened
― The Frightened
“The therapists recommended Mrs Dalloway, where I read that madness is simply a loss of proportion. In my case I felt, as I imagined Virginia Woolf concede, that this was certainly a disproportionate response to sudden pain. But at its core lay something frightening and far more challenging to repair. I was simply no longer a child, and the ground was not solid, and the Eastern Cape was barren and poor, and I didn't have a driver's licence. To witness true poverty when you know what it is to live easily is something very hard to come to terms with. I felt in this moment so far away from you, so far below, and most incapable of reaching.”
― The Frightened
― The Frightened
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