By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: It’s hard to find the one. By “The One”, I mean someone that is your soul mate. Someone that shares your passions; mind, body, heart and soul. By soul mate, I mean him who takes your breath away and breathes life into your days. The person whose body fits with yours like a puzzle and in […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: Let’s be friends. That statement was the start of a horror I wished to never experience even after you and I were done. I thought I could stomach being friends with you, after all, you hadn’t done anything bad. I just got tired of the numerous broken promises and halfhearted attempts to make it up to […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: I am not going to pretend to be unaffected by the break up. Sure it hurt. I had our whole future mapped out and when it all fell apart I was disappointed and shocked. The past few months I have been moving in a haze existing and yet nothing has been real. I am a little […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: Sorry isn't sorry. Just because you say sorry now doesn't wipe away all the tears I cried in trying to fix us. Just because you lost me now doesn't mean you should finally remember that this was all roses once and something you thought you wanted. Sorry could be the hardest word or the easiest. Sometimes […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: Somehow, you get past the drunken experiences and begin to open up to each other. Secretly you wonder if he meant the proposal. Could it really be as simple as being found when you felt like you would never find love? He carries your bag in public. Opens your drink and keeps doing little things that […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: Being exhausted is really exhausting. You toss and turn, sigh and rant, cry and wail, smile even though it feels the bubble that feeds the hole inside your heart got sucked out by a vacuum. You seem to find ways to keep busy that leave you with more time than you can stand. You start thinking […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: After dating someone for a while, you get to think some uncomfortable thoughts. Intimacy is great but how intimate should you get? Does your partner have boundaries? What are their turn ons and offs? Sure, you may think the honeymoon phase won't end but trust me it does. While dating, a few people allow themselves to […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: They say love is the one emotion, the one part of us that we control entirely. While we can't control who we love; it just happens. We can control the amount of love and soul we give to others. Well, I thought I could control how much I was falling for my crush. I found myself texting […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: I walked into the doctor's room slowly, my mind whirling with thoughts on how I could get him to sign my prescription. I hoped he was the younger friendly type, as opposed to the older stuffy kind. My footsteps stalled as I saw him. Our eyes momentarily held, and I swear I saw a spark of […]
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By Emmeline Bisiikwa, Uganda: 'You are amazing.' 'Yeah . right.' So amazing that I wa 'You are amazing.' 'Yeah, right.' So amazing that I wasn't worth being more than a fling two years ago, I thought to myself. 'Don't you believe me?' he asked. I sighed, 'You hurt me a lot in the past. I can't get past all that […]
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