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Michelle's confession By Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher Here, I am. Soon, you’ll have to go, Michelle, very soon, you must be honest, now. Okay, I'm a potential killer, but I luckily survived the death penalty, and maybe, for a pinch of typically feminine stubbornness. Well done, I said it, I'm happy, now. But that's not enough, isn’t it? I have to say it all, I have to do it, I need to remember and confess everything. I wanted to kill you, I admit, I tried many times to do it and I was just a whisker from getting you out of my life. You look at me with that absent face, with your head elsewhere, your heart on the other side, and every single cell of your body on its own business, as if being there, at that precise moment was not the priority. How much you made me suffer, you have no idea, you do not have it. How many disappointments I have had to endure, because of you, and your absolute inability to obtain true results, those that make the family happy...

Stories and News No. 1073 Eight years ago, Phyllis Omido 's son died by lead poisoning through breastfeeding. Since then, she has become Kenya's leading anti-pollution activist and has been threatened, even arrested and forced to hide. After gaining the accountable factory’s closure with her NGO, Center for Justice, Governance and Environmental Action, she will bring her battle to court once again in order to get the right compensation for family members victims. A world of victims... Thank you, mother . Thank you for what you did. Thank you, really, for what you do. But above all, thank you for what you wanted to do and some denied it. Because that’s where I live. They exiled me right in what’s missing, and in what’s still possible, I will have my revenge. Listen to me, now. Listen to the voice that knows better than any other what losing means. Mine is an existence that shatters day after day. I’m the leaves turning yellow every year more. I’m the water tha...