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Tete pa janm twò lou pou mèt li

The breast is never too heavy for the one who carries it

— Haitian proverb —

burden, family

What is genuinely your own never feels like a burden.

Tete pa janm twò lou pou mèt li — The breast is never too heavy for the one who carries it
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