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now? Like a short soon or a long soon?—while my eight-year-old daughter and my husband sat cross-legged, each hunched over a particularly tangled knot in the rope. It was a hot July afternoon, and all that remained of our heaping bowl...

of death itself, lurked deep within my bones and made me afraid and ashamed to live. I walked through the streets hunched over, hiding my face. I would never make eye contact with anyone for more than an instant; I was convinced they...

doctor was shaking too as he carried the soiled basin to the bathroom. He carefully placed it on the floor, then hunched over the sink, one hand on each side of it supporting his weight, his forehead touching the cold mirror of the...

spirit world. The water in the womb of the mother is a universe of freedom for the baby. Even though the baby has to stay hunched up at all times and cannot kick wherever it pleases, and its nose and mouth are blocked, that place is...