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more handsome than he was then, standing on the other side of the

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related to

s their e

n his dressing, you can deduce he's not

my memory of how

as that day made me blus

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ates me in the pr

t i

esome presence, miss

miling at me with a misch

pte

y call life with a smile on your face, you

n weather is

and stops around February time, but last year's harmattan season didn't start until February of th

th layers of dust, a compl

s during wintertime, but in

if you want to escape the dust, although I was putting on three laye

though I ran a ma

ets had split lips, and some unfortunate

isible on the poor, they are recognize

used the happy kids as I wal

out the cold since they

hem, "we are fine, thank you!!" They cho

I like walking to my mom's shop every morning instead of taking a motorc

when I saw Kachi in his mother's shop,

an enemy, but he's ce

't seen him, knowing it was a futile plan as he has

etentious wife," he cooed pathetically as I

p to see the children, his also t

nwanyim, the more you run from me, t

to his taunt I

ver!" he shouted as

ur shop, I st

s my mom gets a kic

p, I your maidservant has already swept th

know you arrived earlier. I'm I apologize for my ta

ave your time, your mom is expecting you, and you k

s I entered

itutara counter? Federal governmen

of progress, ekwutumekwu, my

bi?, okwalagi," I chuckled

y mom countered as I walked

entitlements were transferred to her younger sister

rive her of her righ

sans, his father was a furniture maker and my father inherit

rked from my thoughts, my mo

your presence," she looked at me as if I

ost I thought, you

still don't go there at all. What were you

tion, I can tell she knows what am up to, but decided to give me a break as

, that when you will truly realize you have a professional mother", she beamed wi

dad, although she doesn't complain much abo

t you and I know am the professional

father for spoiling you rotten with prais

speaks for itself. Good wine doesn't n

th as we got the shop re