pho___lake

Storyteller ✍️
Life. Family. Relationships.
Stories you'll never forget.

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@ChuksEmma947401 Interested

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@zillionokoye I'm interested

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@ZidyepO God bless your mum

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@creative_yua Aura for Aura

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@bod_repuplic Free

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@official_QV Esin aworo 😂😂

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@kenkenlewu Mothers are trying

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At what point does taking care of family become family taking advantage of you?
Why is it always the person struggling the most that gets called first?

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I have been in Lagos for nine years.
One room. Okada to work. Eba and egusi when things were tight.
Nobody sent me money.
Nobody checked if I was eating.
I built everything myself.

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I am not a stingy person.
But somewhere between the first call and the fifteenth I stopped being a person to them.
I became a solution.
And the moment I said I had nothing they said money had changed me.
Me that was eating once a day just four years ago.

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I still send money sometimes.
Not because I love her the way I used to.
Not because I trust her.
But because part of me still remembers the woman who raised me.

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My aunt raised me after my mother died.
I called her Mama.
Not because anyone told me to.
Because it felt true.
When I got my first salary, I sent her money that same evening.
When her son needed school fees, I paid.

What happened next changed how I saw her forever.

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I confronted her.
She said the relative was lying.
Then she started crying.
I stood there and watched her cry.
And felt nothing.
That was the part that frightened me.
Because I am not a cold person.
But I felt nothing except tired.

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