Lagos, Nigeria.2012.Maliya woke up the next morning, searching for her clock on the bedside table, only to stop abruptly, remembering where she was.Three years ago, she would have cut off her left hand to be here, admist her family, but now she dreaded this place the most.She opened the bedside drawer and switched on her phone.5:30 am.She dragged herself from bed, and headed to the bathroom, only coming out when she had bathed, brushed her teeth and taken care of everything else.She muttered her supplications and folded her praying mat.Maliya had decided to carry on with her life the way she had been living for the past three years, she wouldn't become the girl she once was, she had resolved.Determined, she picked up the broom and swept the room, mended her bed, then mopped the grou
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