A COMPLICATED LOVE

LUC

be a cashier in a supermarket. If Yvette hadn't interven

to read * tales of Zoé Gardennia * I've always been passionate about r

d classified? It's a bit big

t and the foods on the rig

y kind as a young girl. My

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do you wa

on his finger

tha

ife hasn't satisfied me for some time

be very courteous to cheat on an 1

p playing the saint or touch you

him, I hat

ducts are

et you LUCIA. We will m

tion. I considered myself tall so I had to, Here in Africa, women are there to make babies, right?! When I was told that he had had this ac

ay, I enter the transport

ter in the kitchen prep

of me, how are

ou traitors of

ds before comi

nd

on call

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d them before going up to study,

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he bathroom which is just at the end of the hall, once finished I put on

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my lipstick before

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applying m

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ence

it this shitty life and foc

me off with her "

ways there preaching, go get the faithful at the

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KENDRA you h

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e leaving, Damn what am I doin

e car befo

the man of my life as well as several people. This is my place, others judge me

throom to spit out everything I've consumed. I wash my fa

I say without

len

hat two men have entere

do yo

hile the other bu

you want? If it's t

moving

YOU HAVE N

only right, God had spoken through his mouth if only I had listened. Now I'm going

again. Said the man holdin

PAM he shoots in the air, I'm so

but no one comes, the volum

ve two choices

ome out. The image of my sister co

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....th

or the lady? Brin

e camera while the other ther

, I thought of my father and my sister. I

ft. I rinsed off, no one sh

back before goin

tel with the money that TYFFAN had given me. On

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, on the way down I meet my grand

did you get h

tha

S, says Yvette

say

OK

ls, I went to help myself

tact me for the re

I wave him in without bothering to look at

You are

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I came to t

bother to

thought that your presence would do m

No

please try to accept. Besides,

asy to have a

ll think

I stop her with a sign. I ha

.. okay.

on on my project b

next day, I put on my costum

ing my briefcase. I make a few urgen

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your sist

in mourn

OK

e the bus to school, Today is not r

take my facts befo

one

..ring

tak

te, what's

anted you to a

ette

but please make an effor

come. I say

your sister from the past.

er lying down, she didn't ca

tle party tonight, she wanted me to let you kn

Voice

OK

throbe to go

our pardon

rong, there's something wrong. I app

nt to tell

ready, not n

ere, I said giv

ke she cried. Finally I took my sho

finding the

ss, we come in ther

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't feel we

the microphone, I inspect the pl

I can say is thank God because I'v

icrophone back

er boyfriend on the other side of the wall, I act as if

gh, other people smok

o see it was the man I had spied on when h

nto his pockets as he

d eve

immediately freed he

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iends to clear my

party does

adicted, If I get angry it won't

nk he is? So like this at home

e is lea

tte tries to stop me

little kindness, Hunt people like do

d his hands in his pockets, H

Have you lost yo

ms, I caught my

I'm not too used to being talkative so you

go of

ready to come out, H

ow my hand land

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