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The housemaid in my courtyard, Awa. She rarely smiles, but is so pretty when she does!

It is taking me some time to get used to the idea of having a housemaid who fetches water for me, who heats it up when I want to make coffee, and who cleans my clothes for me (!) At the same time, even though I could do all of those things myself, it gives her an extra income that she would not have otherwise, and it would in some weird way be cheap of me to do it myself, not to mention socially unacceptable.

Still, I struggle with it.

Bamako, November 2006

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