Glamsquad Magazine Jan 2023

REPORTAGE
cheerleader of her children, fun
and funny, source of delicious
sarcasm, style icon, so sharply
observant she never missed
a thing. She made history as
the first female registrar of the
University of Nigeria. She was
a permanent board member
of the Anambra State Basic
Education Board ASUBEB.”
Having lost both her parents
in a short period of time, Adichie
keeps wondering “How does
a heart break twice?” in her
post. “You discover emotions
you cannot name. There is
an emotion more hollow than
sorrow. There is an acceptance
drenched in disbelief. Language
fails. Clichés come startlingly
alive: the heart is truly heavy, it is
no mere metaphor.
The mornings so dark you
cannot get up from bed, the
erratic pulse, the anger, the
surprise, the tiny moments
of forgetting, the regrets, the
doomed attempts at escape.
But the pain is waiting. The pain
is inescapable. The desperate
longing to turn back time, just to
see her again, hear her laugh
one more time, hug and kiss her.
Even if just to say goodbye,
even if just to have the chance
to say goodbye, to say thank you
for everything you did for me and
everything you were to me, to
say I love you, again,” she further
wrote.
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