Nearly a year! I read it with surprise and admiration when it made the world news. But how hungry she must have been to take food from his refrigerator, risking her invisibility in his household.
I could see her, worrying, but unable to starve any longer, and not wanting to die in the storage closet she had taken up residence in, and so she crept out like a stowaway, like a church mouse, and helped herself to the offerings.
And thus left evidence of her existence and was ultimately exposed.
Which may be just as well, perhaps there is a home for her in the state. Or perhaps someone will write a book about her and share the royalties with her...
Incredible story of desperation, daring, courage, and finally surrender.
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(There is a part of me that is still so very 3rd World and who sees life and what it sometimes takes to survive from a different vantage than many people in my culture, I think.)
Sheath of feeling. Words groping to touch air.
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Hi Brenda,
ReplyDeleteJust visiting your site for the very first time!
I think I've seen this article somewhere before!
Boris
Boris! You have indeed. I just couldn't let it go, so it ended up here. She's too mythic, the woman who lived in the closet...
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by.
xo