Hanifah tried to run away. She had been long fantasizing of a life of โfreedomโ, like sheโd been reading in novels, seeing on TV, YouTube, Netflix, in movies and all over Instagram and Tiktok.
If only I was allowed, sheโd think to herself… “If only I was allowed to wear whatever I wanted, to listen to music, to watch the popular shows plastered on billboards and gossiped about by my cousins… If only I was allowed to feel the wind in my hair walking down the street, to go out without my parents, to have less rules, no rules infact โ to have ‘freedom’.
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