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Thirty-Seven
On The Road
Osun
11/4/2030
10:00am
The autocab to Ibadan state left Osun as early as ten in the morning. Temi and one other passenger sat on each side of the vehicle, avoiding physical contact. Temi thought how hard it had been to convince the security of the departure park not to check her fingerprint.
The other passenger hummed a music tune as he played a mobile game on his Celo. Temi noticed his Celo was bigger and oblong. Was this an older or newer version? Ire would have known. He is always up to date with the newest things around.
Temi exhaled and pried open the Ibadan flyer in her hand. She read a brief history of Ibadan state from the top left of the first page. A drawn map of the city showed red lines showing major towns for the wealthy, blue lines for the middle and lower classes, and the green for the unpopular towns. Yellow marked popular spots and purple showed the Go
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