Reasons To Live
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18-year-old Oluwatimileyin Turner had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. He's spent most of his life in the most dreaded parts of Lagos State, where men, women even children risk their lives on highways just to make a living--- and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs, barely enough to send them to school. Then Timmy decides to stand up for himself and his siblings after his mother's death.
Did he make it despite all the challenges faced?
Find out by reading "Reasons To Live"
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