Did I choose them or did they choose me, the women who have kept me company along the way, women with whom I never slept but who were with me when I woke and whispered 'Courage'? Hard to tell who listened and who spoke, whose voice, whose history I heard. What did we have in common except our century? What drew me to them one by one? Their kindness - or their fury?
 
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