To be anywhere near as good a parent to her own child, Ilapara knows she would have to give up her life of dangerous thrills, of chasing ghosts across deserts and fighting tikoloshe, and return to the tranquility and safety of her homeland—essentially admitting that she failed to achieve the life she originally left to seek. She would return a failure, pregnant with a foreigner’s bastard, a cautionary tale for other young women with dreams of defying expectations. Mothers would point her out to their daughters and say, See? Listen to me, or you’ll end up just like her. You don’t want to end up
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