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Chapter 1 - A girl was born

On a sunny day, exactly 14 : 24pm a girl was given birth to at CEM church located at badagry, Lagos state. The mother was so happy cause she has been carrying the pregnancy for 11 months now and finally the baby was out, her joy knew no bounds. She went home the next day and the whole family celebrated the new born girl. She was very fair and pretty with full hair, everyone that saw this child wanted to hold her cause the child was just very pretty and plumpy to ignore.

The day finally came for her naming ceremony, and they named her Edoja Precious Uzezi. Precious grew up to be a very pretty and intelligent girl. She was very smart little and a happy going girl, but there was something people hated about her, she doesn't greet her elders.

I am sure she had a reason for not getting people to often cause not everyone around her had genuine intentions towards her or what was her reason....

Precious grew up in a polygamous home, her dad married three wives and her mom was the last wife. The first wife has one kid, the second wife 4 kids while her mother gave birth to 10 children. Precious later had a kid sister which made her the 9th child of her mother. The three wives and their children never seem to agree ever since she was a child. They are always fighting and the father will always support the other wives and made life a living hell for precious mother.

One morning, Mrs Edoja, Precious mother was on her way to the market cause she buys and sells rice from another country to Nigeria. It was a prohibited thing to do in Nigerian at that time most times they seize her rice but she doesn't relent. Precious father (Mr. Edoja) came out and was having an inaudible conversation with her. While they were talking, the man started beating her up and she fell down unconscious.....

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