Khumo: the arranged wedding
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Khumo is a young vibrant girl from a village called Metsing, in the North West. Khumo has aspirations to one day become a well known designer. Unfortunately life has no manual. It never goes in the direction one hopes it should.
Khumo just wants to be a well known designer. She wants to escape life at the village. Her mother and 15 year old sister, have not made life easy for her. She tries all her best to look out for her sister but she reaches a point where she has had enough!
The more Khumo ignores her baby sister, the more she rebels. She tries to cut her baby sister and mother out of her life but that's not who she is.
What she didn't know is that her life was already planned out for her. She does not yet know that the hot, handsome big shot, hotel owner is about to turn her life around. Or maybe turn it upside down!
People always assume that you're happy. What they don't know is that behind closed doors, demons are unleashed! True colors are being shown.
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