Taruni Boyalakuntla

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My mom was never a cadaver; no person ever is. You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place. My mother was gone. The cadaver was her hull. Or that was how it seemed to me.
Taruni Boyalakuntla
LOVE this take. It is a big concept in Hinduism, that our bodies are temporary and do not belong to us. We borrow our bodies from the earth.
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