“It would take a while for me to realise that each of my children had given me as much as they took. My memories of them, bittersweet and constant, were as powerful as a physical presence. And because of that, as a bus bore me into the heart of a city I did not know, while my last child was dying in Lagos and the country was unraveling, I was not afraid because I was not alone.”https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13490756.Ay_ba_mi_Ade_ba_y_

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "“It would take a while for me to realise that each of my children had given me as much as they took. My memories of them, bittersweet and constant, were as powerful as a physical presence. And because of that, as a bus bore me into the heart of a city I did not know, while my last child was dying in Lagos and the country was unraveling, I was not afraid because I was not alone.”https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13490756.Ay_ba_mi_Ade_ba_y_" in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.