Only, the river is not the villain here. It is the silence around our pains until they become too large to ignore. We normalise years of stomach ache as 'just the water' or 'poor digestion', so by the time someone looks, it has spread roots.
I know because I called my own nausea 'bus fatigue' for months, saving the clinic fee for my mother's medicines.
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