After (or, Nine Beholdings)
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When we were girls, we weren’t supposed to look adults in the eyes, and when we did, we could barely stand the intensity, felt like we were too close to a human kind of flame.
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Yasmin Boakye
Yasmin Boakye is an essayist and fiction writer raised in the Maryland suburbs of DC. Her prose has appeared in Refinery29, Puerto del Sol’s Black Voices Series, and Bird’s Thumb. She is currently based in Iowa City, where she is pursuing an MFA in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program.
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