EVEN IF THEY SAID NO !
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Even If They Said No
Nobuhlebenkosazane Skosana thought love meant staying. At sixteen, she met Ntando Dlamini at her Seventh-day Adventist church in uMhlanga, and from that Sabbath afternoon, her heart chose him - even when everyone else said no.
Now twenty-one,Nkosazane lives with her aunt in Zinga Ridge, juggling shifts at McDonald's and classes at UKZN while trying to outrun the grief of losing her father. Once loud, bubbly, and full of dreams, she slowly begins to shrink inside a relationship built on promises that never quite become reality.
Ntando is charming, confident, and impossible to forget. But love with him is complicated - marked by betrayal, guilt, and forgiveness that costs her pieces of herself each time. Her friends warn her. Her family questions her. Still, she stays.
Until one day she realizes that loving him has meant losing herself.
Even If They Said No is a tender, emotional story about faith, first love, heartbreak, and the courage it takes to choose yourself - even when your heart is not ready to let go.*😭💔🥹
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