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The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Read between December 23, 2023 - January 3, 2024
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refectory
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ineluctable.
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It is our diffidence about the afterlife that leads us to religion.
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avuncular
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It was as if he was performing his life instead of living his life.”