
“I was paying tribute to (Lily), but also paying tribute to my mother’s trauma of having to watch a child bleeding from the mouth, dying.”

She wove this story into Five Little Indians, in which the characters bury the remains of a child inspired by Lily, and begin their own process of healing.

Soonias was scarred after watching her friend, Lily, hemorrhage to death from tuberculosis on the playground, said Good.

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