Talking Mirror
Anjali, what you're describing about your mother's isolation, no brother's family standing by her, that's a real wound and it deserves to be named exactly as you named it. Notice one thing though, in your own last line: you've placed the whole weight of getting out of this on education and strength, alone. That's the same lesson the system taught your mother too, just from the other side, that a woman survives by what she alone can build, never b…
