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Harvests of Tears
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As a young boy, excitement had begun to build inside my mind. My grandfather was the right person we
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“I shall be going back home my daughter,” my grandfather said. “When you feel lonely, you can come o
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Mother had told me that the fact that father ate the food showed she was free from any accusation co
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He began to speak slowly and in pain, and in an unusual manner. He said many things of his sorrows,
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As it was the tradition of our people for the living to inspect the dead before he or she could be b
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They sang, eulogizing my father as a hero. But I could hardly remember him to be one.
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That was not the news Mother needed at that moment. She could not in any condition sell her body, ne
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That was at least a sound reasoning. Mother lowered her face to the floor and sighed. Iremma stood u
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CHAPTER SIX
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Suddenly, Grandfather took ill a few months after the one-year period of mourning of his son. The si
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I was too little to understand anything. The thatching job was for boys and men much older than I a
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sticks which the previous year’s rain had destroyed. She was at the top, in the area of the inner ro
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Our rest did not last very long, before we went back to work. We steadily worked another session in
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being a fearless young boy, so I opened the door and saw my grandmother whom I love so much. She had
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CHAPTER NINE
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I was only increasing in size, but I was too young to catch up all that she wanted me to learn. Ther
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Mother stood up, hugged me and took my hands sluggishly. I was dragging her against her will. She we
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
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I followed her without hesitation. We stopped at a shop where wares were sold. She priced almost all
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CHAPTER TWELVE
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I went out. Many thoughts came into my mind and troubled me. I reasoned that fighting Udodi back wou
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Neighbors heard angry voices and poured into our compound looking at everyone’s face in askance. Chi
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We were happy that she recovered and we resumed our farm work. Suddenly, Mother, too, got sick and t
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On one of those nights, Mother called me to her bed and told me she could not endure the pain anymor
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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I pleaded her forgiveness and promised henceforth I would be a good son she would be proud of. I was
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
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‘Papa, I am deeply sorry that you have gotten it all wrong. You say things that have never really co
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
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I grew rapidly into a black, well-built and handsome man like my father but I had my Mother’s face.
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CHAPTER NINETEEN
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Mother talked to me like she would to her adult brother and held herself firmly. She did not drop te
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CHAPTER TWENTY
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
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‘She has refused to eat anything since the last Eke market day,’ Mma whispered to me in her tears.
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I looked at Obi, who kept stretching his legs and body wearily. Sleep still weighed heavily on his e
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Our mind ran into many things - our memories with her as a young hardworking mother, our mealtime an
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