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MY HONOR... MY TALE DR AMB MEHREEN MIA HC South Africa I had been through it all, and society, their talks with stigma and rumors didn't help me gain momentum to become whole again. Broken within, I fought fiercely to walk, walk my path, pick up my pieces and join my pieces of my puzzle of my being to bring back a new Me. Theory showed it to be much easier than in real life! I fought. I raged. I sobbed. I embraced every negative emotion and somehow, I grew through it. I Re-defined me a few times over, painful an exercise as it was, I could not give up. My struggle. My Life. No one else to help me. So, I had to do it. I just had to. Literally, to take my first step again after seven months of being the cripple just lying there, to finding my path, the pains of abuse being dealt with because of mind games and abuses, the anguish of emotional torment, all of it being embraced to help me grow and rebuild Me. I took that first step, walking aids intact on either side... Pained with burning stabbing like burns as I tried to make my spine and body function again.... I took that first step!! And then the next and the next. Fast forward a few months of therapy to learn to walk, organs to work again, the call came in to make sure I am there to greet him. Scared, as if I'm that little girl who wronged so badly, how
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do I go back into the public space again, let alone see this man who was my guide all my life, who I feel I'd let down so badly with my wrong choices and not listening to the advice to leave the abuse etc.? What if he also thinks I'm bad in some way, like others do too... What if... And what if...... And still I chose to go to meet him, yes, in that crowd, in the public space. After all, he was a public figure too. When I walked in to see him, I could hear the whispers of lies about me.... The turned heads and eyes shocked because I was not supposed to be alive. He stood up... I stopped... He acknowledged me... Walked and asked me to follow him... Leaving behind that entire crowd who shunned me but revered him. He called me aside and said to me, "I'm glad to see you BUT
