BREATHE
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Like every other girl out there,Lilith is desperately fighting to follow her dreams. When she is forced into a marriage by her uncle,she looses all hopes of ever being happy and like all African wives,she is expected to put her husband's happiness first. She begins to doubt all that she has lived to believe when they fight hand in hand against societal and country struggles and betrayals,religious and ethnical boundaries.
Will Lilith lose the battle as expected of weak willed females by African men or will she put aside enmity and hatred to bring back the shattered pieces of life that she started with initially.
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