She fought, against fate, against disease, against time itself to the very end. I leaned and whispered in her ear as she lay on her deathbed, though I'm not sure if she could still hear me, that it was okay, that she could rest now and not be so tired. There were two dates in the last several weeks that help explain this final contradiction.
Alipigana thidi ya nasibu, ya ujongwa, ya wakati wenyewe hadi mwisho. Niliinama na kumnog’onezea sikioni mwake alivyokuwa katika kitanda chake karibu kufa, ingawa sina hakika alinisikia tena, kwamba mambo yalikuwa sawa, yakuwa anaweza kupumzika sasa bila kuchoka sana. Kulikuwa na tarehe mbili katika wiki hizi zilizopita zinazoeleza tatanishi hili la mwisho.