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easy. Life is just like a tossed coin, it can e

o the complicated aspec

o Make each day count and Ma

fe "trows you Lemons, you m

t, but as many "Jars of lemonades" as i can m

our life gonna take, what kinnda friends you r gonna meet on the way,

nia, and this

r having an intercouse, the worst part of it was he is a strange

h other physically, w

through my mind as

m the long Journey i had travelling from Rivers state down here to Lagos state? and on the same night still had sex with me and also right on the same roof his mum laid. Him not putting that into conside

ld girl would or what I'm doing in a strangers p

eviously my na

K TO YEAR

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family of Mr and lat

e in height, light skinne

girl born into a family that is not well to do, a

r got to know her not even a picture of her was shown to m

though person herself.(i will share more abou

my sickness, i didn't get to join my mates in Nursery school

ough what they have learnt in school. They are the only ones i could easily speak to. T

was almost 8years old when my Uncle named Mr Joseph who happ

e but had never seen them due to distance. Th

akes care of me due to her illness and can nolonger take care of me, pleaded wit

eels like i can have a b

r liked me. how wrong my grandmother was as things went

nd wsys about heading back to their base in another state, the wife hel

ment, they had no child uptill thieir early 40s. There

happy at first when i

she started changing towards mewhen i was enrolled into a prima

ack home, change my cloths and the

My aunt is a Baker. Technica

er till night befo

h for me when her attitude

join her at the bakkery to assist her and whenever i am a min

ed up, not just that, i will also go to the market almost every day after school, cook,

not only do all that in my uncles house,

ings where happening, i

tremely tou

re it all for the s

I havent experienced what it actually meant for a person to be loved and cared for by her parent

have to survive in

o have a little nap at home before heading to Aunts Bakery. I mistakenly oversl

y cloths to a casual outfit. By the time i got to To her

hed the ground could ju

lled me towards her, while trying to pull me close, her n

stop her from

ane and gave me the

ready going to a mans hou

ute and also treatened

r not to tell my dad cos it was true

home after school hours, i wished to remain at school an

everything going on in his home? well on this particular issue, when he came back, He a

m his wif

fe and reported the i

how could she ever do such

t got seperat

mily, He let go off the separation as

e was pleading, they'd thin

was the beginning

rying to separate she from he

she will make me miss classes just for me to work for he

t is to pray to God silently

ensuring i never repeats any classes despite the fact

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l cycle, although i was already prepared f

o know and how to keep our hygiene an

ed at me and said : if you like, keep sleeping around

you r now a woman and c

r leave it, its u

d wore it without removing the top paper as i didn't know

arnt how to we

the students that passed their firs

e, i bought the common e

ned it and waited

who leaves in the same compound with us, but later changed apartment. i cried the day they moved because

the extent of helping me out with chor

happy i will be in the same school with him. I only realized how much I missed him when they

tunately for me, i was among one of the students th

l fees for me and bought me some

for my scho

k. Words cannot express how i f

ve made it this far despite the challenges,I'm st

well. It was a mixed school of both girls and boys compared to my primary that ha

de and not Let them speak to me all because, i was

the best schools in town and also a mixed school. Compared to

e the school books, bags, shoes. he also paid for my sc

ol fees lastly befo

o jss1c (Junior se