Reflections on the Diaspora
I am tired. Ndaneta. I am leaving. You stay. Keep the house. Keep everything. I will take the children with me, they are on my permit. You don’t want this marriage. You don’t even want your children. I have struggled to look after them. At least now I have a job that will make it easier for me to do so.
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My mom sent me a play station and a Barbie doll. She cannot come back right now because she is working. She will come back once she has raised enough money to buy us a house. I cannot go and see her because she is so busy working.
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Let me go first. I will look for a job and settle down. Then I will send for you. Of course I still love you but we cannot eat love. I will send for you once I have saved enough money.
It has been 5 years since he went. He has not sent for me tete … I don’t think he is coming back for me.
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Nematambudziko. Did you receive the money that I sent? Please buy him a beautiful coffin. I cannot come because my papers haasi right.