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"Ewoooh!"  Obianuju cried out in pain as she hit her leg on the stone. "If only this stone was a human being, I'd have given its the beating of its life" she thought. She had just been chased out of her matrimonial home by her mother in-law. These past few years has been hell  for her. "leave this house! Leave ómó Igbo, fi ómó mi sile, ajé omo (leave my child alone you this witch Igbo girl)" shouted her mother-in-law in Yoruba, some hours ago. She married a Yoruba man against her parents wish and she knew right from the start ,that it wasn't going to last.Obianuju,who looked depressed and frustrated with life,walked  aimlessly along the lonely and dark street of Goshen estate in Ikoyi. She had gone to her friend's place ,with the hope of crashing there for the night, unfortunately, her friend , Christiana wasn't home. She had called on the phone but the line wasn't reachable.  The place looked deserted and she wondered when Christiana relocated without her notice. "How would I have known, when I was the one that stopped talking to her after that incident" she thought, sighing out loud. Christiana had gotten the promotion which should have been hers three years ago when she was an employee at Channels TV.  The dress on her and the clothes in her travel bag were the only thing left with her. She wasn't allowed to take the car Dayo,her husband bought for her on her last birthday. "It's truly my fault not to have told my husband all these years. Haaa , this is wickedness on my part, we'd have sorted it out together I know. Dayo is soft at heart and understanding, he'd have done something" She thought sighing out loud as rivulets of tears ran down her cheek.