In My Dreams I Dance

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Anne Wafula-Strike. In My Dreams I Dance

In my Dreams I Dance

Anne Wafula Strike

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter One Walking and Running

Chapter Two The Day My Life Changed

Chapter Three Joyland

Chapter Four A Terrible Loss

Chapter Five The Coup

Chapter Six Growing Up

Chapter Seven Romance

Chapter Eight Bachelor of Education

Chapter Nine A Proper Job

Chapter Ten Not Quite Mills & Boon

Chapter Eleven This Green and Pleasant Land

Chapter Twelve A Miracle

Chapter Thirteen Getting the Fitness Bug

Chapter Fourteen Going Home

Chapter Fifteen Athens

Chapter Sixteen Medals

Chapter Seventeen A Bitter Blow

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Copyright

About the Publisher

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How one woman battled prejudice and setbacks to become a champion

my son Timothy,

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‘I know it will be hard for you to put up with the plaster, Anne, but this is the best chance you have to straighten out your twisted body,’ the doctors explained.

I had to endure this for about a year, which would be hard enough for an adult but was particularly tough for a little girl like me. I couldn’t understand why my body was suddenly locked into this horrible white material. In the village I’d adapted well to only being able to use the top half of my body, but being trapped inside the plaster often made me cry. It was the worst kind of prison and always became unbearably itchy. A new cast was put on every three months and each time the medical staff removed the old plaster they found many wounds underneath it where I had managed to dig my finger or a spoon through the plaster to scratch the maddening itches. Sometimes lice got under my plaster and bred there in the warm conditions.

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