My birth circumstances were different,I am an african,A woman carrying a child without a spouse in Africa was almost a taboo,you would be stigmatized,it was almost a curse.
My mother met a man from the Edo tribe,at the time, the Edo tribe were regarded as bad luck and inhumane blood suckers,At the time this happened there was already civilization,They were both studying law in the university,He was nice to her,They shared a bond and although she tried to fight her feelings,she fell for him in the hardest way possible,She kept on avoiding sex with him because she was a virgin and insecure but one night he was able to seduce her into sleeping with him,It was one time with no condoms,but it was beautiful.
It was almost time for their finals when my mother started feeling sick,she thought it was malaria because of the Deadly mosquitos in her hostel,she got treated for malaria multiple times but it refused to go away,so she decided to get tested that was when she found out she was pregnant with me.
Confused,scared and paranoid,but one thing she knew was that she loved that baby,from the minute she found out about my existence,she loved me with all her heart.
When her parents found out about the pregnancy,they were furious,they tried to get her to abort the baby but she ran away to her uncle's and remained there,as for my dad,He came to ask for her hand in marriage but because he was from the Edo tribe my grandparents had him locked up,when he was finally able to get out of jail,he never sought for my mother again and that's how she was sentenced to raising a child alone in a country where being a single mother is like an incurable ailment,I was born on a Friday night by 11:45pm,my mum said I was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen in her life.
I was going to be cast into a world of deceit, Emotional blackmail and lies,A web of lies,some of them which I spun on my own.
