Prologue (The very beginning)

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• The Child's Father   1. My mum and I

  I stood in front of the hospital with tears in my eyes. I didn't know where to go nor who to ask for help. It was just my mum and I, it had always been just the two of us... No friend, no relatives.My mum had me at a very young age out of wedlock and had told me my father abandoned us, he didn't even stay long enough with her to see me as a baby.My mother left home out of shame because she kept on receiving insults from her relatives and neighbours based on she getting pregnant without a husband. My mother left Ogun State and came to Jos where she wasn't known to avoid further embarrassment from her neighbours and relatives and hustled on her own to make sure we were fine. Whenever I asked about any relative, she told me they were not important and that we only needed each other. She said I completed her and she completed me; we were enough for each other... That's all that mattered. And after she'd said that, I'd smile and hug her.

• The Child's Father   Prologue (The very beginning)

  The news was so heartbreaking.My mother had been rushed to the hospital after falling down the stairs in the house where she worked as a cleaner.She had worked as a cleaner in the same house ever since I was very little and she had walked on the same stairs almost everyday so what really made today different?I was with my boyfriend, John, we were lying on the bed and cuddling when a call came in through my small Nokia phone.I had wondered who was calling. The only people who ever called me were my mother and John. Sometimes, my boss called me on the phone, but that was rare, very rare; akin to once in a blue moon.I picked up my phone and glanced at the screen to see who could actually be calling me when I was busy with something important. Yeah, John and I cuddling was very important because he was working and I was too. This was the only day I had off and coincidentally, this was his only day