After 10 Years of Waiting, I Finally Heard My Baby Cry
Paul Nyongesa
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For ten long years, my home was filled with silence. Not the silence of peace, but the silence of emptiness, the silence of a womb that refused to carry life, the silence of nights soaked in tears, the silence of pain when everyone around me celebrated motherhood while I was left behind.
When I got married at 25, I dreamed of becoming a mother within the first few years. I decorated a small room in our house, painted it soft yellow, imagining the day I would place...continue Reading
