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We received a phone call from Birmingham saying there had been a fire on my...
Auntie had passed away and my cousins were injured.
And I think at that time they didn't fully know either what exactly had happened.
We knew it was a house fire and there was lots of, like, speaking of, was it arson?
Or, you know, there was a lot of that.
Loss, depression, homelessness.
Kwesia X has had a lot to deal with in her young life.
But she's found a remedy in nature.
Even in the concrete jungle that is London,
she looks for the green and the blue and listens for the birds between the sirens.
It saved her.
You're listening to Life's Less Ordinary.
From the BBC World Service, I'm Jo Fidgen.