My mother told tales of the boys in her class dipping the pigtails of the girls sitting in front of them into the ink in those inkwells.

我妈妈在故事里讲到，说她课堂上的男孩子们有时会把前排女生的辫子放到墨水池里。

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The polling officer didn't even raise her head. After dipping a plastic straw into a bottle of purple ink, she drew a blotchy line down the middle finger of my left hand.

选举官头也不抬，用塑料棒沾了紫色墨水就在我左手的中指上抹下一条污渍。

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People were telling me that whole letters of the alphabet have been eliminated from the books of the Kenyan Electoral Commission, that their votes are not being tabulated correctly, that the permanent ink that they're dipping their fingers in to show that they voted is actually removable ink.

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