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		<copyright>Rose Zaynab Mounsif</copyright>
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			<itunes:subtitle>When your language grows slower than your life</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:subtitle> For the ones who were trained to erase themselves, lesson by lesson.</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:subtitle> For the ones born in translation and tired of apologizing for it.</itunes:subtitle>
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			<title>Intro: You Felt That Too</title>
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