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2She set her mind on traveling to Europe for a better life and hadensured that lying on her backprovided the funds for herdreams. After being duped twiceby spurious travel agents, shesettled for Ghana. The family only ever heard from her duringChristmas.Ogochukwu, the second born andsecond daughter was theprettiest. At a young age, sheeasily got the attention of boys and men in the hood. After hersecondary school, it was onlyright she latched on to awealthy guy, whose mainbusiness was unknown but droveseveral big and expensive cars and traveled abroad alot. Ogo’s‘husband’ had been very niceto their family until heimpregnated Ogo and asked herto move in with him, promising to‘close road’ after Ogo had delivered the baby. The party heproposed, was supposed to betwo-in-one… Marriage andnaming ceremony. Ogo was nowheavy with her second child andthere was still no ‘closing road’ in sight. She only evershowed up to cry to theirmother that her husband beatsand blames her for thedownturn of his business.
A bucket was kicked violentlyaway from the line that hadbeen formed by the side of thewell. There was outrage.Voices were raised and a fewbodies were shoved in anger.This scenario played out almostevery morning and the residentsof inland street were used to the fracas. In the huge melee, Ironegot down to work briskly. Hedunked the small bucket used todraw water from the well andbegan to fill his many bucketsand basins, while Gbenga and Sesan tried to calm down thewarring parties. A few, veryobservant girls had keyed intoIrone’s train of thought anddeftly jumped the queue to getwater. One was those girls, was called Chinwe… Popularly knownas chi-chiChinwe was the hottest bitchon Koso street. Her beauty wasnot measured by her face,stature, brains, height, skin color or other such criteria.Chinwe's beauty was strictlymeasured by the activeness andactivity of her vagina.Her father had been stripped offhis manliness when he lost his job as a Hotel Manager in a No-Star, barely-above-a...
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