Love and Carnations
Chydinma
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  • Reads 1,287
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  • Parts 6
  • Time 1h 38m
Chydinma
Ongoing, First published Oct 11, 2012
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Chiora Odinukwe is almost turning thirty-three. She is saddled with a dead end job and has not been in a relatively progressive relationship in over two years. However, her not-so eventful life is left in disarray when she has no other choice but to marry Ralu Okoye, a man she barely knows. Now she has to deal with an overprotective sibling, interfering best friends and ex-boyfriends who just would not go away.


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