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Grow, Growing, Growingest! [Primary Edition]
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Blessing is a little bit below the average Ugandan girl. And by below average, she means regarding grades.
Education, empashised a great deal in this third world country, is never all there is to a child's life. And Blessing prefers to navigate everything else except her books.
For example her relationship with family and her trusted accomplice Martha, the absurdity of the teachers who are just programmed to wallop and give homework, her classmates who scream and only look forward to break time, and not forgettting that stupid boy who keeps pinching her. That stupid boy, who tops the class at the end of every term.
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