A Woman Works to the Bone

Deborah Kristina
2 min readApr 29, 2024
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My mind puts up an image of my bunions being crushed and my screaming in agony.

Maybe the images that my mind shows me come from the part of my personality where I feel deeply sad, and they don’t originate from something that I can control.

You still wouldn’t pick your feet up despite the pain in my feet making my nights sleepless. You still wouldn’t urgently get out of your chair if someone…

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Deborah Kristina

Author of ‘A Girl All Alone Somewhere in the World’, ‘Confessions and Thoughts of a Girl in Turkey’, ‘From Just a Girl Grown Up in America’. (Amazon.com)