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Last published Sun, Oct 18, 2015
Ayomide wanted nothing else than freedom and peace. She wanted her family back. But none of these things seemed easy to get. She lived her life as a slave in England and there was nothing she could do about it. Or was there a way to turn her life normal again?
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