The right side of my neck was bent double and I couldn't straighten it out without myorelaxants.
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Instantly brought to mind this painting: Jeanne Hébuterne by
Amedeo Modigliani.

We were unable to pass the Romberg test.
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It was only at that moment that I began to feel truly frightened: I realized that something irreversible was happening to my body, something I couldn't control, something bigger than me.
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I'm getting alarmed. Trying to diagnose her.

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"...space had been ripped to pieces like an unsent love letter..."

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"They now lie alongside one another: his mean, cold eyes tensely track every passerby as she looks lovingly at the little gate, awaiting her children, who are her main consolation and her only joy."

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"Unlike my girlfriends and others around me, however, my glasses - like books - never betrayed me."

Our heroine knows she “would cause only problems because I was unable to lower my eyes and keep my mouth shut” 🙊 It’s getting good! #MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26

My Dreadful Body, chapter II: Eyes. “Why should a woman’s eyes be bottomless? And able only to accommodate the world, having no right to change it.” 📚👁️ #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

And I was reminded of Morrison's The Bluest Eye. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

A woman is not supposed to speak, a woman is not supposed to contradict, and a woman isnot allowed to forget that she is an object in a sentence rather than its main subject.
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(it's no coincidence that the majority of Turkic patronymics contain the word kizi, "daughter," and oğlu, "son," in the proper order) but you are a daughter until your very death and you are a son who represents the family line.
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Life in the community was reminiscent of a reality show with constant video surveillance: no action, word, or undertaking went unnoticed.
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In the world where I grew
up, gazes penetrated every little corner. The evil eye, the neighbors' eyes, the relatives' eyes, the random pedestrian's eyes, the unscrupulous men's eyes. the women's unhappy eyes.
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It's interesting that I was the lone child in our large family to wear glasses. That was why Bibi firmly decided the books were to blame, since I read too many of them.
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