BECOMING
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Last published Sat, Jun 8, 2019
Life could be a dick sometimes but giving up is a losers anthem. You'll think you have your life planned out until the society you live in shoves time off your face. But pushing forward and hoping to get better is the only way to survive.
"Becoming" is about a young Nigerian who had her life started rather late because of the hardship in her country and letting go of the society time and focusing on striving to survive and becoming all she had ever wanted to become. It's never too late to pull that string.
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