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  2 posts in 24hrs ??? who is this ??? Some books I've been really into: 1) Invisible Man- I read this book a couple months ago and I still think about it almost daily. I read the first chapter in one of my first yrs of college and I've always wanted to read the full thing but I felt like I wasn't competent enough to fully grasp it. It was a fairly hard read because it was just so jam-packed with metaphors and symbolism but it was worth it brain power. I couldn't wait to finish the book just so that I could do research on it that unpacks all the symbolism I might have missed. And I loved the development of the characters like how the author represents the different mentalities of black people during that time from Dr. Bledsoe's "White is Right" to the veteran's more "woke" approach. . It's just such a great book. Definite 10/10 I can't wait to read it again. 2) Things Fall Apart- Another book that got me thinking about it months after...

It doesn't feel like it's been this long bc I wrote a blog post but it felt way too messy to post and I can't post it now bc I've gone past that lesson and I don't feel the same anymore. So on to a new topic. Sooo, lately I have been feeling so much love in my heart. The type of love I don't think I've felt before. It's just so full and satisfying. We (brother, his wife, and I) took a roadtrip to visit my Great Grandmother for my birthday. It was going to be a solo trip but I was able to convince them to go and we met up with my mom as well. I felt guilty at first bc of conflicting plans etc. but Alhumduliillah we all went. It was so nice to catch up with G.Gma bc I love talking with her and for my birthday my mom painted a portrait of me and it contains elements of little things I've told her I liked/was thinking about. It made me cry just how seen I felt. It was a short 2 night stay so we could only do a couple activities and time was tight but I r...