“Don’t vote for her,” the voice said. “She doesn’t know the pain of childbirth.” These words were uttered by her political opponent.
“Did the words cut you?” I ask Joyce Lay, the former Taita Taveta Woman Representative.
“No they did not. But only because I know my story, and the reason I share my story is because I don’t like people telling my story their way. I am the one who lived the pain,” she says, matter-of-factly.
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