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My word: No one said it would be easy

When you love better, you do better- Maya Angelou (Image: Shutterstock)

“Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to love men who hurt her cause they look so much like you.”

This is an excerpt from Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. When I came across that poem I stilled for a few minutes. The depth of the words needed more than five seconds to grasp.

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