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s. She smelled fresh like a rose, and she came into my room with Agnes, w

er hand. I walk up to my chair in my room and have a seat, wh

y up. The driver is already here, and why didn't you make your face? You know that you'l

didn't have any intention of pleasing the man to whom I might be m

and. So I am perfectly okay like this. The way I am. If I pretend with him, what if I cann

chless at first. She finally

good. If not, I will be back here, as

She said, "You nag a lot. Just hush and eve

ollowed my mother downstairs while Agnes t

t my father, standing in the center of the living room. He was still in

ged man greet my fathe

sure you return on time." My father said to the man in a b

driver replied, and my

ara

up in my eyes again. Even when I went to the university and s

me again to live with my parents like I used to. The farms we visited-the harvested pr

at a time in a person's life when they must shoulder a compulsory

ff. You can always return home to us if you still don't like the city, but I won't expect you to re

ather is telling me about bringing my future kids ho

my family lineage and to have someone to look up to in the following years. T

, and I walk up to his side. He petted me closely and reassured me about my husba

waved goodbye to my parents, uncles, and aunties, who had pull

f like I was sold off. My parents also had a sad look on t

ly going to the city to multiply and to

blew off my nose, knowing my face had become a mess. I watched t

me. And stealing a final look backward, I saw my mother crying and my father hugging her

e to the town would take hours, as the city was far from the countrysi

least to find something to distract my mind and to

in my country. We use the Facebook network to br

f likes and the fear of fake accounts that we

y people with the same name as him, and finding the honest Darlin

alongside my parents. It was easy to connect with old family friends, especially those with

file I entered, I gasped as I saw the f