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Had no idea about the requirements for Hajj! And I agree; you should have had months to prepare both yourself and the paperwork.

Re: your first few paragraphs - I've been called "anti-family" because I held them to the same standards as everyone else. They don't like that they can't push me around like that 😉

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you know dzai, i’ve been thinking a lot about our times with our friends and we may have really bonded both through joy and trauma. i think our studying writing was a sort of response to structure and make sense of our past. James Baldwin said, 'It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself and half-believed before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.’ maybe that’s us

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