Reflective essay on parental absence and family memories

The second birth: Of fathers who scarcely knew their children, mothers whose absence defined memories!, by Stephanie Shaakaa

Fear has a way of exposing truths that comfort usually conceals. A child who wakes in the middle of the night after a nightmare does not think about bloodlines, surnames or family trees. In that suspended moment between terror and relief, there is only one question that matters: who is coming? The answer to that question is […] The post The second birth: Of fathers who scarcely knew their children, mothers whose absence defined memories!, by Stephanie Shaakaa appeared first on Vanguard News.

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