Hidden Beauty

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ce morning and my body just dey shake" th

I tell you say I dey sell food? Abeg comot from he

was alive I guess I w

Begging since morning with only fifty naira to show for it, was not exactly something of joy for a seventeen year old girl but there was nothi

rs when things seem difficult but perhaps I had lost the strength to cry. Even as my eyes were closing on me and my body was weak I have to think of a way to feed. The money with me was only capable of buying one sachet of Parle-G biscuit one of my favorite delight but I knew after eating it, it will only take an hour and a few minutes before the pangs of hunger c

s would have turned back after seeing this sight but for me I couldn't because as the popular saying on the street goes " any hustle

o could help me. Getting to the counter I saw three ladies with same tee-shirt servin

ptuous pot the owner of this eatery' I said to a dark

?' she questioned while looking at

to ask her for a

ich

t to ...to beg her for

beg instead of you to come they find madam like say na you open shop for a

r own beggar special?, Abi na

e, it's because of my beauty, I could understand that I tend to make a lot of people

did nothing wrong but In a situation like th

only come to beg but after saying that I realized that this was actually a great idea. I mean getting a jo

rk here?' s

a' I r

o we no get space for h

ase ma.

nterrupted ' I go give you food but make you no show your face for here again oo' I felt real

ing about eight spoonful of jol

the day and even the morning of the other day. I walked back to the shade feeling lighter and happier than I have felt for a while. Immediately I got to the shade I began wrestling the food with careless a