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Chapter Eight Kemi looked across the table at doctor Mangodo, and saw him better for the first time. Beyond the well trimmed beard, and the handsome face, there was a certain ruggedness. He sat erect, with shoulders held firm, like one who was used to…
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Chapter Seven “You do have to stop crying at some point, you know? Na me suppose dey cry.” Ivy said through gritted teeth, though she felt very bad for the young lady whom the doctor had earlier introduced as Kemi. In spite of the anger she…
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Chapter Six “O salutaris Hostia, Quae caeli pandis ostium: Bella premunt hostilia, Da robur, fer auxilium…” On her way from hospital, Kemi had decided to stop at a Catholic Church – St Martin. It was not many poles away from Johnson…
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Chapter Five Kemi couldn’t stop herself from sobbing. She had nearly killed someone’s child because of her recklessness.“Don’t be too hard on yourself Barrister Kemi. It’s not easy to take this all in.” Mangodo kept…
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Chapter Four Ivy was a young ‘gentle lady of the night’. No. She wasn’t born into prostitution. She had come to Lagos to stay with an aunt in Ojodu in 2012, just after she sat for her WAEC and NECO exams. After assurances to her ailing…
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Chapter Three It had been four days since Doctor Mangodo told her she was depressed – Kemi knew many people were depressed, but somehow, she hadn’t actually thought she was one of the many. She had hoped the general disinterestedness would…
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Chapter Two Mangodo felt the weariness seep into his bones. He was the Medical Doctor assigned to Office D in the Out Patients’ Department of Johnson & Jones Medical Centre. Located at the middle of Luxury Estates, Victoria Island, Lagos, the…
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Chapter One Kemi woke up with a severe headache. She reached across the bed and swapped her right hand across the bedside stool, hoping to find the culprit that had cut short her sleep. These days she hardly had any. Her brain tried to grasp the events…