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Ainura Kalau

Ainura was born in Central Asia, spent over a decade in Malaysia, and studied at an Australian university before settling in São Paulo, where she’s now raising her family. Her life blends cultures and perspectives, something that naturally shapes her writing. When she’s not working, she’s usually trying new recipes while binging true crime shows, soaking up sunny Brazilian days at the park or beach, or crafting something with her hands.

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The hardest part of having a difficult parent is not always what they did — sometimes it is how normal you became at pretending it did not hurt
Being single at 50 can carry a strange kind of social visibility — you’re somehow both invisible at couples’ dinners and over-discussed at family gatherings
People raised by unpredictable parents often become excellent at reading rooms, but the price is that they rarely feel relaxed inside one
People raised in the 60s and 70s didn’t need a notification to know where their friends were — they just followed the sound of bicycles, screen doors, and someone’s mother calling from the porch
The generation that grew up in the 1970s carries a rare kind of mental endurance, because they were the last children allowed to fail and figure it out unsupervised