When I was a girl, I was one of the Vuvalini, the Many Mothers. I was part of a clan.
[Swaddle Dog, the recitation pushes her to add, but these are details he doesn't need, and a mantra it leaves her throat a little tight to think of.]
I had a mother, MaryJo Bassa, and an initiate mother named Katie Concannon. We lived in the Green Place, which was then an oasis. A lingering stripe of green, nestled in behind a mountain range, while the rest of the world around us seemed to shrivel and wither.
When I was fourteen, JoBassa and I went out on bikes to trade food for what passed for medicine, and a raiding party nabbed us. We never told them where we came from.
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[Swaddle Dog, the recitation pushes her to add, but these are details he doesn't need, and a mantra it leaves her throat a little tight to think of.]
I had a mother, MaryJo Bassa, and an initiate mother named Katie Concannon. We lived in the Green Place, which was then an oasis. A lingering stripe of green, nestled in behind a mountain range, while the rest of the world around us seemed to shrivel and wither.
When I was fourteen, JoBassa and I went out on bikes to trade food for what passed for medicine, and a raiding party nabbed us. We never told them where we came from.