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My love for you is a fact - by Natacia Lim

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Consolidating loose notes and poems about love written and translated the past year

A year ago, I wrote a series of poems in Mandarin for the very first time, then translated them back into English, only to find that I had recovered the tacky sincerity I’d lost in my poetry years ago. It was difficult to write about love for a long time. Everything was too laden with history, with my duty to privacy, intimacy, respect. Because I lacked the vocabulary to explain these things, it was in my amateur use of another language that I could find my way back to writing plainly, which is to me, the only way to write about love. In recent months, I was allowed the great gift of being…

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