Mozambique Travel Journal - Tuesday 25th Jan 2005 (Part 9)
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Part of me thinks that the emotions of these women were too far gone to even know what was happening, but the other part of me likens these women to someone in a coma, who registers nothing but knows exactly what was going on. From the little I heard of these women’s conditions (the nurse had been explaining the whole time but I hadn’t been paying attention), they had malaria and most had HIV/AIDS. There were no mental conditions that I heard of, so this means that their mental function was probably fine, and that they themselves have removed themselves from their surroundings.
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