"Look at you!"
"I'm sure that those children are your age mates or even children of lesser ages. See their talents - singing, dancing and much more. But what do you have?"
"I'm sure that they pay their school fees through the money they get", she added.
But mama, I try. I really try hard to do better than they are but you do not appreciate me. At least, I still pay part of my school fees through the vegetables I sell for you after school every day." Her son replied, defensively.
"Eewo! Is that me you're talking to?" She shouted at her son as she picked up her abebe and gave him a hot chase
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As she sat down outside the house, a "face me I slap you" apartment as they call it, she thought about her life and much more, her son. She recalled what transpired between them that afternoon
Eewo - Abomination
Abebe - local fan
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