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Forgotten Burial: A Restless Spirit s Plea for Justice

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“Sometimes I wake up suddenly in the middle of the night drenched with sweat all over my head. And I cry with no tears coming out of my eyes staring blankly into the pointless space in front of me. I try hard and close my eyes hoping to fall asleep but like a daemon running in the background it scares the hell shit out of me. I just wish it is just a story on the back of my mind and as soon as I will wake up next morning it will fade away like a dream but I fear it isn't and I know it won't.”

“Liberty marveled at how properly people conducted themselves for the most part, greeting the world each morning in a spirit of bemused cooperation and polite assumption, agreeing on words, sharing words, acceding to the same reality of one thing or another. As a child, Liberty had very much wanted her own words, made enthusiastic by a phrase much employed by the adults of the time—tell it in your own words. But they hadn’t meant it. Having your own words just wasn’t feasible. Having your own words isolated you from the rest of humanity. A personal vocabulary indicated a distrustful spirit, a lack of faith in the way things were.”