My people 45 x 365

The challenge: a year profiling people I have known, using a word count equal to my age. I'm taking weekends off!

Monday, June 12, 2006

A family in Kinshasa (64/261)

A man and 4 children live in 1 room. His wife died in childbirth. His 8-year-old daughter has to look after the kids. One son is disabled, and the family is being evicted because people think he’s possessed by evil spirits. Let’s kill some cultural traditions.

2 Comments:

At 4:49 AM, Blogger Indigo Bunting said...

Heartbreaking.

 
At 12:02 AM, Blogger ntexas99 said...

yes, heartbreaking, and viscerally real (in this life we live that doesn't resemble reality half the time)

 

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