Fatimana died, we don't know what she died from yet we buried her this week, a gentle ceremony in a harsh and unforgiving landscape.
There on the edges of civilization in the heat, dust and poverty of the Air Mountains we laid her to rest, my aunt by mutual adoption left us, yet the memories of her burn strong in my heart.
I sit now in my air conditioned hotel room short hours away by our technological miracles, yet light years away in our neglect.
Fatimana, who showed so much courage to the world and had a dignity so rare upon this earth, died because she did not dare show weakness in a mans world.
May she be at peace, and her spirit glide upon the desert breeze.
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