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"I have heard some people say they seem to be alive in a period of time they think they should not be in."  

Fareedah once said to me on our way back home.

  “Akorede, I wish I was born in the 1970s.”

I told her

  “I wished I was born during the Renaissance. “

She looked at me like I had just uttered some blasphemy, like my choice was unreal and imaginative. She asked me why I said I wished I was born in the Renaissance.

I told her that I love everything about that era, especially the art from that particular period.

And then she said

  “Oh really.” dragging the word "really" for a little longer than necessary. 
She does that sometimes, she does that sometimes,
Fareedah, I miss her.