Dalila Di Capri Stabed -

Warsan Shire

Her hair thinned a little; her laugh gained edges. She took a job teaching an evening sewing class at the community center, insisting students learn how to mend while also teaching them how to hold the fragile parts of their lives. In the class she told no one the parts of the night that still visited her, but she taught them how to stitch small tears so fabric did not run away from itself. She accepted a bouquet sent anonymously from someone who’d been at the trial; she returned it to the sender weeks later with a ribbon clipped to a page of her ledger and a note that read, “We are not done living.”



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    Her hair thinned a little; her laugh gained edges. She took a job teaching an evening sewing class at the community center, insisting students learn how to mend while also teaching them how to hold the fragile parts of their lives. In the class she told no one the parts of the night that still visited her, but she taught them how to stitch small tears so fabric did not run away from itself. She accepted a bouquet sent anonymously from someone who’d been at the trial; she returned it to the sender weeks later with a ribbon clipped to a page of her ledger and a note that read, “We are not done living.”

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