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When survival is the priority, there is no time to be soft

Wreckage of a nissan matatu pulled from an accident scene. [File, Standard]

There I was again, arriving at my most frequented mental destination at the time: neither here nor there.

I was a new returnee to Kenya where finally, after over a decade of being in Australia, I had landed back where I looked like everyone else and my hair had the same kinks and coils as the next person’s.

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