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They say time heals all wounds but it doesn't. Time teaches us how to live with them. How to hold love in one hand and loss in the other, how to laugh without guilt, how to carry the ache quietly, how to rebuild around the grief.

After four years in this city, I can tell you the real rules for surviving Nairobi aren't in the travel guides. They’re learned in traffic, through the unspoken codes of relationships, and in the art of nodding earnestly through a Swahili conversation you only half-understand. This is the post I wish I could send back to my 2021 self- the unofficial survival guide to the 20 hilarious truths I learned the hard way.

I’ve heard plenty of stereotypes as a woman in surgery… but this one was a first.