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Chapter Fourteen
08:26 pm, September 15,
Nsukka, Enugu State.
China Okenwa was a busy woman. Sometimes she herself thought it was a miracle she had time at all to take motherly care of Kanayo.
She glanced at the back seat where the said baby was strapped into his baby car seat. He had his little pudgy hands fisted and was staring right back at her, his large, black eyes innocent and expressive.
'Come on, smile,' she said to him while she herself broke into one. The baby continued to stare blankly at her.
She turned back to the steering wheel. 'Of course, you idiot, he can't understand you.'
Back to her thoughts. Okay, she herself admitted she was getting too busy for her own good nowadays. Her main occupation was lecturing; she lectured in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
She also managed a large poultry, a branch of Okenwa Farm, owned by her and her husband. It included a poultry,
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