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Dinaw Mengestu: "Ibuku tidak akan pernah bisa mengatakan dia suka jatu...

"Ibuku tidak akan pernah bisa mengatakan dia suka jatuh, tetapi ketika dia berjalan menuruni tangga dengan kopernya di tangan ke arah Monte Carlo merah yang telah ditunggu suaminya selama hampir satu jam, dia bisa mengatakan bahwa dia menghormati tempatnya sebagai mediator. antara dua ekstrem. Musim gugur datang dan pergi, sementara musim dingin berlangsung dan musim panas dipuja. Musim gugur adalah tempat istirahat yang memungkinkan dan bisa ditanggung, dan sekarang di sini ia bersama suaminya di sebelahnya, menuju sore hari di awal musim gugur dengan hanya gagasan samar tentang siapa mereka menjadi dan apa yang terjadi selanjutnya."

--- Dinaw Mengestu

Versi Bahasa Inggris

My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next.