Traditions and Love
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Last published Mon, Sep 17, 2018
Isabella Angella Johnson is a Pediatrician. From the outside it seems she has it all; a loving family, a loving husband and a successful career. Isn't it every woman's dream? But she's not happy because she can't have the one thing she wants...the only thing she believes that's missing that circumstances won't allow her to have...children. Can many years of love keep a marriage together. With a dysfunctional family and a mother-in-law who just came from Ghana with a mission consistently hounding her, she tries to juggle everything with her family's traditions constantly getting in her way.
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