Some days my thoughts are like alphabet soup. The letters are swimming around and I can’t string them together to make sense of it all. Other days, I am able to band them together intricately, forming beautiful sentences that weave into paragraphs, that tell a beautifully messy story of joy, peace, hope, truth, heartache, pain, tragedy, and love.

Malaika Salaam words from the forthcoming story of me
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