to have a voice

I heard and Afghan woman in an interview who said I wasn't afraid to die I was afraid to be alive but to be dead inside. A wanted to be a woman with a voice.

before I use to say that I was screaming to an army of death people, I didn't care, i had a voice, I was alive.

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