I grew up in community which frowned upon broken families. In the mid-80s, literature on broken families was not accessible and if they were, nobody read them to me. I was six when my father left us.
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“Meye toh kalo hobe! (the girl will be dark colored!)”…………. This was one of the first statements made about me by one of my relatives when I was born.
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I recalled my paternal grandmother's saying that if you had seven female children, you had not given birth to any child. And my mother had eight of us.
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Later after my Secondary School in 2007, my mother and I agreed that I should look for a job to work so as I sustain my self and the family, since we had just lost our Father to HIV/AIDS and Mum had
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“Why it takes longer at MY DAUGHTER’S turn?” I could see a panel of faculties sitting on the stage. I could observe their facial expression from this distance.
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