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I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not welcome girl-babies will not treasure me as I grow to woman - though he call me princess just because the Guru told him to. I have come so far, I have borne so much pain and emptiness! But men have not yet changed.
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india
south-asian-literature
sikh
womens-fiction
pakistan
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Shauna Singh Baldwin |
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Learning is just remembering slowly, like simmer coming to boil.
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Shauna Singh Baldwin |
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Why does Papaji tell Jeevan this story? Roop wonders. Whenever Gujri tells Roop a story, se reminds Roop that stories are not told for th telling, but for the teaching.
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Shauna Singh Baldwin |
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708df70
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Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.
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woman
womens-fiction
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Shauna Singh Baldwin |
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She leans over Roop the way Sardarji leaned over Satya the years she cried for children, brushing tears from Roop's heavy lashes with her lips. She strokes her head as a mother would, says. "Slpee little one, we are together now." And Roop sleeps, overcome by the afternoon heat. While Satya watches her. So trusting, so very stupid."
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sikh
womens-fiction
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Shauna Singh Baldwin |