Olivia

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"Hello, I'm happy to have you today have a seat."

"Can you tell me your name?"

"My name is Olivia?"

"Olivia, what do you like doing?"

"Ohm, I don't know."

"What makes you smile?"

"Eh, ohm teeth."

"Where are we right now?"

"In a room."

"Where do you come from?"

"From somewhere."

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"I'm not sure."

Olivia was dressed in a short denim skirt and a t-shirt. Clearly she did not feel confined any longer Wairimu noticed. They walked till they got to the edge of the rehabilitation center. The doctor had told her how she wailed when they showed her the picture of the doctor who had done her abortion.

"She took everything from me," she had cried.

"It's okay, she can't get to you now so don't let him hurt you."

They had ended the session there and the doctor was proud of her progress. They would go at it the next day from another angle. This time she would nature and take care of a doll for a week. Feeding it changing it getting used to it and then depending on her progress she would be in charge of taking care of a neighboring children's home at lunch time every day for a week.

"How is dad," Olivia broke her silence.

"Not good." Wairimu was astonished by her question. "You know he is in hospital in bad condition right?"

"Yeah, I know what Fred did."

Wairimu bit her lip

"But I have forgiven him. I just want us to be a family again to be how we were."

After they were done talking Wairimu shed a tear. She would be all better soon and she would take her place as a bridesmaid in her weeding and a seat in the boardroom as her head of staff. She needed her gentleness next to her.

"Hello, I'm happy to have you today have a seat."

"Can you tell me your name?"

"My name is Olivia?"

"Olivia, what do you like doing?"

"I like singing."

"What makes you smile?"

"Puppies."

"Where are we right now?"

"In a rehabilitation center."

"Which country do you come from?"

"Kenya."

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Me."

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