Lamika saw the tattered red and white transit bus approaching. If she wanted to, she could have flagged the driver down, but there was a

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I felt a strange mixed emotion when the plain landed at Toronto's Pearson airport. I must say I had quite an interesting journey, apart from

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Let me breathe. Let me just hold on to the rest of my energy and try to grasp another piece of this thin air. I

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Welcome to freedom, which will protect you as long as you live. Then your spirit will fly until it enters another body and the other

  I work in a small office in a short grayish building. The office walls are white. My office does not have a window, but