SNOWFLAKE

ognized it as something strong, strange and addictive, even from the very first moment. It was something my young mind couldn't reall

d my first love. It w

as it was charming, so that even to my young and naive mind, it did a lot of things that I did not understand and I felt a lot of things that I had never felt before. He was a child of one of the big men who came from the city to attend the wedding. It was the wedding ceremony of the village chief's daughter, so there were a lot of strangers who had come all the way from the city to be in attendance. There were so many of them, as if an entire city had followed the co

ed at the little groom as he stro

nt to marry

in our direction. She had to stifle her la

t marriage?" She said still fi

ed aloud again. This time, the woman sitting beside u

ent ahead to reveal to the stranger the litt

ather sternly, as if I h

know you're still a child? What do you know about marriage?" She ask

girl oh." She advised my aunty Flora. Aunty Flora nodded in a

was older than him. He looked older, but he acted like younger kids. I wanted to go over and play with them, ask him if he was older or younger than me. But I didn

ing why I had to receive a beating for l

, why were we sitting here, watching two

him?" I asked my au

me in confus

id?" Sh

marry the boy. I li

, then she laughed. This time, she made an effort to

u're too young to marry or even l

body?" I asked her. She l

seventeen or eighteen. When you'r

hool?"

e time you are twenty or more and done with college

hsc

ege, no. I couldn't wait that long. Not if there were

'Once the wedding ends, he'll be gone. And I wo

re in highsc

hschool, I would wait. I pro