Afterglow
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Complete Fri, Oct 26, 201823m
Set in a fictional Nigerian village, this short story centers around Mairo, an only child who has always had everything she wanted at her whim and command, is suddenly asked to pay for all these graces by being forced to marry a terrible man over three times her age.
Appalled, she runs away on instinct and gets lost in a forest where her only source of shelter is the home of a handsome young man.......
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