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“Can’t you hear the longing in the song?”
“It’s just that jigga man pimp,” said Jay-Z.
“No,” I said.

“I sat and watched her, jealous of how easily she seemed to root herself here. Me, I felt splintered, like the end of a snapped-off tree branch. I had even taken to talking to myself, keeping me company, narrating my own movements. In this way, me became her, I became Nidali, you, she.”

“I thought, I’m already going to hell for having lesbian thoughts and I might as well bide my time here on earth.” Now this is girlhood

“Take them!” the soldier screamed, hurling the strappy sandals at her.

The girl lifted up her glasses and examined the heels. Apparently satisfied, she slipped them on and, once outside, said, “First my land, now my Guccis! Goddamn it.”

Randa Jarrar is so funny and so poignant. Marry me, pls?