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Bolas:”there is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think”

“You can imagine you are in exile. Or you can imagine you have more than one home. “

“Lacunae of a lost child who intuited her own otherness and blamed herself for it.”

“I had been shaped by my country of origin all my life . ..Suffused with an inchoate longing to know my own land.”