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“You’re young, you’re a good person and if you find a good woman, go and marry.”

“Ok, now put your head down sweety.”

“I came to Malaysia alone in 2014 because of the civil war in my home country, Somalia. I had 4 siblings. When the civil war broke out in 1994, our mother disappeared and we couldn’t find her. My father and eldest sister died before I came to Malaysia.”

I want to become a pop star when I grow up. Maybe do K-pop music. I like to sing, dance and rap. My idol is Lisa from Blackpink. My parents told me that if I want to become a pop star, I must work very hard for that.

“#Undi18 is a movement I started together with a friend, with the objective of lowering the voting age to 18.”

“I love their spirit. They, the disabled Paralympians, have spirit. Abled-people always likes to talk big that they can do something – but if you can see the determination of the Paralympians, you will go back home thinking that the ‘orang cacat’ (disabled people) can do better than you.”

“I had my first cancer when I was 10 years old. It was bone cancer on my left leg’s femur bone. I did chemotherapy and surgeries – and I survived, I am ok…

“My auntie died of cancer, she was never married, and she was only focused on her career. When she was diagnosed with cancer, she had a spiritual experience towards the last moments of her death.”

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