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"I always imagined my choice of husband would be like my travel-writing, unusual, but not so much as to alienate my parents. Somebody foreign, with poetry in his soul. Not a successful Igbo engineer who still polished his shoes with kiwi polish that everybody’s father in Nigeria had used. Where did he even buy the tin?”" — Jan 16, 2026 01:10PM
"I always imagined my choice of husband would be like my travel-writing, unusual, but not so much as to alienate my parents. Somebody foreign, with poetry in his soul. Not a successful Igbo engineer who still polished his shoes with kiwi polish that everybody’s father in Nigeria had used. Where did he even buy the tin?”" — Jan 16, 2026 01:10PM
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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