i never really thought it made you stronger

[tree]

Grandpapa used to say, about difficulties he had gone through, 'It did not kill me, it made me knowledgeable.' O gburo m egbu, o mee ka m malu ife."

--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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