Thank you @bimbo45 :) I am originally from Zimbabwe and grew up in South Africa but was predominantly in a white culture. I have traveled a fair amount in Southern Africa itself but this was my first time going cross culture and I feel like I found my home.

When those men listened to me that day I cried my eyes out, it was the first time in a long while I felt like I could breathe without having to have my defences up.

Love has carried through and I went to visit 3 of these men in #Botswana, November 2021 for a wedding where I was welcomed into families as a daughter and sister. I was even gifted with the name Libu meaning Grateful in Tswana which meant the world to me.