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This picture takes me back to my America's next model; with aspirations of becoming Africa's...STILL
 ME: short, petite, shy yet outspoken, South African, smart, inquisitive...
 HER: taller, darker, smart, slimmer, sensitive, Somali, shy yet verbal of her realities current and past...

This year was also my first time coming across the procedure 'female genital mutilation'... and it wouldn't be the first; here goes:

I remember her chocolate brown skin
her tiny eyes
beautiful cheekbones and pointed nose
her gorgeous smile through tears
as she told her story

there in my lounge
listening
her soft voice
my dad exclaiming in shock:
it wasn't the first time hearing such

I remember the smell of the food
my mother was preparing for us
mouth watering samp and beans
coffee tea coming up for dad

my senses ignited
not in joiy
but
in disgust and shock
shock at society of that time
shock at the ';values' instilled in women

we will cut
you will be woman
we will sew
you will not be like men
IT is not for you
but them

IT it is of no use to you

You are a girl
for now
You will be woman
soon

we shall "prevent" the "shame"
I shall own that body
SOON
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