Status Updates From A Splintering

this truly reminds me of village life in pakistan so far- vivid and accurate descriptions

“It was the age of wishing, the age of yearning, sometimes fulfilled, more often chased into futile exhaustion.”

“I loved my children, but I wanted escape from their constant needs, their unreasonable requests, the way they considered every minute of my time, every inch of my body, their own.”

“The place of my birth began to repel me in a way it never had.”

“So, you see, my story begins with a sense that many of us have, that life is unfair, and that there is no socially sanctioned way of remedying that unfairness.”