Story cover for It's Never The Same For Us by ilynneveryday
It's Never The Same For Us
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Ongoing, First published Jun 03, 2020
A single mother,  Tsitsi has build up so much hatred for men and has put them in a shell of selfish human beings that her ideologies have become those of having her guards up and seeing men as only narcissistic beings.  Part of her inanimate fear emanates from the fact that her former lover and father of her only daughter deserted them in a time of need.  Others, from the ideologies of her own mother. Another woman who was raised as an only daughter by her single mother. For Tsitsi this seems to be history repeating itself. Put more forward; a generational curse. The tables however turn, when we are introduced to Keith who is a recent but unemployed graduate. He ferries through a life of struggling after supposedly, deserting his pregnant girlfriend and stepdaughter. It builds up on his own life struggles, his emotional turmoil and how, though society shuns and looks at the male figure as to be the sole provider, it's not an ideology that still has to stand in the 21st century Zimbabwe.  The story builds on how a depressed African man and woman realise that anything taught by their fathers and forefathers might really not apply in today's world.
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