When I was nine months old, I had a fever and my family took me to a doctor. The doctor gave me a shot and the next morning my legs would not support me. I had polio. My family did not have money for follow-up treatment.
When I was five years old, my father left my [...]

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Mom says she is not a good cook and I know she is honest!
Because she was always in her office and spent most of her life working, working, working, I didn’t learn anything from her cooking. So I grew myself in cooking.
Once when she was at the office as usual and I was at home [...]

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Here is what life was really like for me.
I was my parent’s second child and though they had two daughters instead of sons, they loved me and my sister very much and were happy with what Allah gave to them.
At that time, we had a private manufacturing company with more than 200 staff. We owned [...]

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And I feel so young
Pains start growing inside of me
I begin to hear
You have to
have to
have to
I have to live with “have to”

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When I open my eyes to this world, everyone turns sad.
When they learn my gender, people say oh my God.
When I am small and need my father’s love and kindness, he turns his back on me, giving all his love to his sons instead.
When I speak loudly, everyone tells me “speak softly, it is a shame you are a girl, a girl should speak quietly.”

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The Dari teacher is late
We call it time to have some fun
We close the class door, taahp
We take the chalk from the desk and start hitting each other

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I would love to be anything in this world
but not a woman
I could be a parrot
I could be a female sheep
I could be a deer or
a sparrow living in a tree
But not an Afghan woman [...]

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The black wind comes.
I walk two steps
And see the flower the wind has destroyed.
Still try to move forward,
I walk two more steps.
And see the tree in front of me,
Without leaves.
It has lost everything
But still it stands in this black wind.
Still it hopes for new leaves [...]

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