'The hurt is still there. When my parents were alive it affected them just as much as it is affecting us today.'

'If the move to reconcile and compensate came from the coup perpetrators maybe, I would have given it some thought but coming from the Government is hard to ac…

'It is like a forced idea and I wonder why they are pushing for it now?'

'The hurt is still with us, something we do not openly discuss but this government has not attempted to include us in any of their reconciliation process.'

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims wit…

When Marilyn Monroe got out of the game, I wrote something like, 'Southern California's special horror notwithstanding, if the world offered nothing, nowhere t…