“When you get depressed, you have so much time on your hands, and you just start googling everything… just because… So I started googling pearls […] Basically something comes into the shell, and it’s supposed to destroy the actual creature. Instead of allowing it to come in and defeat it, it rallies around that piece of bacteria or dirt or whatever, and closes tight…” In 2016, Aiesha Philips’s world began to crumble
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