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‘Immigration has become a physical thing, like a tumor inside us, between us.’

First Sentence: Mary O’Donoghue

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‘It’s the small stuff – and here I mean the odd particulate matter of daily life – that lets me access the sprawl of a place that wasn’t mine but has incrementally become so.’

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‘This, of course, was years before anyone knew or cared who Boko Haram was.’

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Mika Taylor

‘I didn’t want reality to overwrite the story that was forming in my head.’

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