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		<title>The Process Hurts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ensconce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry Closet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Be encouraged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Believe]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>DEAR W.O.K.E., THIS SHIT AINT EASY. I JUST WANT TO WALK AWAY &#8230; BUT I CAN&#8217;T&#8230;. constipation.  SINCERELY, LINDA ORJI</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">DEAR W.O.K.E.,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">THIS SHIT AINT EASY.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I JUST WANT TO WALK AWAY &#8230;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">BUT I CAN&#8217;T&#8230;.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;">constipation. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">SINCERELY,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">LINDA ORJI</span></p>
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		<title>Her Precious Body</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2016 04:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LOVE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nubian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shameless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strength]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Her body is precious. Her body is a jewel. She’s a queen. Her walk is hella mean. But when her girls find out her secret She develops low self-esteem. They [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Her body is precious.</p>
<p>Her body is a jewel.</p>
<p>She’s a queen.</p>
<p>Her walk is hella mean.</p>
<p>But when her girls find out her secret</p>
<p>She develops low self-esteem.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">They ask why&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Liz:</strong> Why you ain&#8217;t let him hit it? If I was you, I would’ve been did it?</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Mya:</strong> Why you waiting til marriage?</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Tish:</strong> (Laughing) Why &#8212; you afraid if you do something you gon get stuck pushing a carriage?</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">Damn, girl, you don’t know what you missin, just so u know we advisin&#8217; we ain&#8217;t dissin&#8217;.”</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Liz:</strong> You need some adventure in your life, you ain&#8217;t gotta wait until you become his wife.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Tish:</strong> You already been with 1 guy, give a couple others a try.</p>
<p>She sits back and takes a long sigh.</p>
<p>Wondering how they find pleasure in giving their precious bodies to more than 1 guy.</p>
<p>She gazes into the sky as a couple years pass by…</p>
<p>It&#8217;s ladies night out&#8230;</p>
<p>They all seem to be putting on a pout.</p>
<p>She listens to hear what they’re raving and carrying on about …</p>
<p>Their miserable relationships,</p>
<p>Crying about their love life with their hands on their hips.</p>
<p>Tisha is on her 7th kid,</p>
<p>But she’s going on about what her 5th baby&#8217;s daddy did.</p>
<p>Mya can’t seem to find that fire,</p>
<p>The passion &#8212; that feeling of REAL love and desire.</p>
<p>Liz just doesn’t think there is such a thing as a good man &#8212;</p>
<p>Her dude gave her an STD and ran.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Liz:</strong> I don’t know what to do. Hey, chick, u sittn&#8217; over there quiet as hell. What you got to tell?</p>
<p>She takes a long sip of her champagne before she works her way in…</p>
<p>“Well, what do I know. My man and I are 10 years strong.”</p>
<p>They all gasp and one asks,</p>
<p>“Damn, girl, what you doing for him to hold on that long?”</p>
<p>She replies, “Everything y’all been there and done&#8230; and sum.</p>
<p>Actually, it’s about that time gotta jet,</p>
<p>We ain&#8217;t finish “blessn” every room in the house yet.</p>
<p>Think tonight is the kitchen…</p>
<p>O and just so u know b/f hand, I&#8217;m just advisin&#8217; I&#8217;m not dissin&#8217;…</p>
<p>My man tells me everyday my body is precious.</p>
<p>He has pride in wearing me as his jewel and says I&#8217;m his Nubian queen.”</p>
<p>As she walks away one of the girls say, “I wonder what her secret is, Liz?”</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Liz:</strong> What, u slow u didn’t get the message? –Everything we did and sum. What, you dumb? Basically she&#8217;s saying we reap what we sow.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Mya:</strong> In simpler terms: you’re a hoe!</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Tisha:</strong> Oh.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Liz:</strong> She’s saying we need to treat ourselves the way we want to be treated.</p>
<p>If we respect ourselves first. The men we attract won’t treat us like dirt.</p>
<p>And we wouldn’t be here crying our eyes out bout how much we hurt.</p>
<p>We lacked self-respect.</p>
<p>As a result we received heartache and neglect.</p>
<p>As they were leavn, Mya said, “Did u see the way she walked off the scene?”</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Tisha:</strong> Yea, her walk is hella mean.</p>
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