Monday, March 12, 2018

The Secret Room

I listen to a podcast, The Secret Room. People reveal their secrets. Some are small, funny. Others are darker. This morning I listened as a woman revealed her abusive childhood. The roomful of women who held her down to perform female genital mutilation. How she stole her passport and escaped to the UK. Here’s to strong women.
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4 comments:

  1. HelenMarch 12, 2018 at 4:59 PM

    Horrible. Horrible. And it's quite amazing how people manage to flee those kinds of situations. But how horrible to think of those who can't manage to.

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  2. SusanMarch 12, 2018 at 10:07 PM

    I believe in reincarnation, but stories like this help to explain why I find the thought of life between lives comforting, but not the idea of the incarnations themselves.

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  3. MaliMarch 13, 2018 at 1:52 AM

    "The roomful of women who held her down ..." That's the bit I can never understand.

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  4. Indigo BuntingMarch 19, 2018 at 9:15 PM

    What all of them said. Wow.

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