Through life's meandering paths; sometimes I was hurtled through time on a runaway roller coaster  while at other times it seemed as if  life was frozen in suspended animation. I wandered through the joys and anguish and abuse of  childhood, a disappointing marriage, the delirious ecstasy of motherhood, of  forbidden love  and  the sorrow of unbearable loss, through leaving a beloved country and struggling to make sense of a new and unknown one, through raising a child and laying a parent down to rest and through all this; heart wrenching loneliness.

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And then the reward and rejuvenation of new friends, rediscovering old passions and finding new ones. Through the metamorphosis from being a daughter, sister, wife, mother, caregiver and breadwinner to being what was meant to be my true identity  - human, woman, unshackled and unbridled and unburdened by the chains of society and expectations. 

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This is a collage woven out of the beautiful pieces of life since the rejuvenation. Like life they are neither perfect nor beautiful nor complete - they are just a collection of a few of the things that move me.