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"You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets"
~Nikita Gill
Ireti Alabi is a young woman in her late 20s scarred with a past that leaves her with broken pieces of herself. She hides her pain beautifully behind a smile.
Jide Oluitan is a young man in his early 30s, a man scarred since birth, he struggles with pain and guilt waiting for life to take him off the surface of the earth.
Together they prove there's no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness but will their past allow them fulfill this fact because brokenness can be really messy.
This is Jide and Ireti's story...
Start Date: 7th May, 2020
End Date: 30th May, 2023.
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