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My father, on the other hand, was rich.
My father, who had been absent in most of my early childhood, came back into my life.
There, I found my father's first wife, my half sisters and my half brothers.
My father stepped in and organized for me to go to boarding school.
My father sent me money from Juba for me to go back to school.
I remember during the visiting days when parents would come to school, and my father would miss.
My father died.
My father was a government worker.
And with the little I earned, I would finance myself and then I would send money home to my brother and my father.
So, if I have to send money to my father in the village, I must send money through that particular money transfer company, even if the cost is high.
He watched — this is in Sudan — as his village — he was only seven years old — burned to the ground, and he learned that his mother and his father and his entire family were killed that day.
This man is my father.
Three years ago, when I found out that my father had suffered a severe stroke in his brain stem, I walked into his room in the ICU at the Montreal Neurological Institute and found him lying deathly still, tethered to a breathing machine.
In that ICU room, I walked up to my father's body, and with a quivering voice and through tears, I began reciting the alphabet.
There was no audible voice, but my father called out my name powerfully.
Despite his extreme physical state, he was completely present with me, guiding, nurturing, and being my father as much if not more than ever before.
For many people, perhaps most, paralysis is an unspeakable horror, but my father's experience losing every system of his body was not an experience of feeling trapped, but rather of turning the psyche inwards, dimming down the external chatter, facing the recesses of his own mind, and in that place, falling in love with life and body anew.
I slept by my father's side for the first four months, tending as much as I could to his every discomfort, understanding the deep human psychological fear of not being able to call out for help.
His bedside became a site for those seeking advice and spiritual counsel, and through us, my father was able to speak and uplift, letter by letter, blink by blink.
Last week, I was brought so low, but I felt the hand of my father around me, and my father brought me back."
Finally, I want to share with you a video from a series that I've been working on that tries to express the slow, in-between existence that my father has experienced.
Kitra Cahana: For most of us, our muscles begin to twitch and move long before we are conscious, but my father tells me his privilege is living on the far periphery of the human experience.
Few of us will ever have to face physical limitations to the degree that my father has, but we will all have moments of paralysis in our lives.
I know I frequently confront walls that feel completely unscalable, but my father insists that there are no dead ends.
Today, my father is no longer locked in.
My father, "How can people protect what they don't understand?"
Every morning, her father would wake up in the hopes he'd be picked for construction work, and on a good month he would earn 50 dollars.
In desperation, her father went to a neighbor to borrow 2,500 dollars.
Unfortunately, Naghma's father didn't have the money, and so the two men agreed to a jirga.
Naghma's father needed to agree, the neighbor needed to agree, and also his son needed to agree.
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