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My Morals:My Challenge

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The night was chilly and the rain drops on the roof was almost deafening,Power Holding has just struck for the umpteenth time that Saturday.The green tea Ugo made to keep herself warm as she snuggled deeper under the duvet was almost cold again.Ugo was lost in thoughts;Where did the years go to?It was just like yesterday, the day she passed out of the National Youth service Corps.Such a relief that day.Ugo was posted to the remotest village in Katsina state,a name she doesn't want to remember.After living all her life in Enugu, she barely coped as a Youth Corper in far away North.
    Ugo is a fair skinned beautiful girl of 27 years,a graduate of Chemical Engineering from the University of Nigeria Nsukka.Ugo is the second child of her parents but the first girl,little wonder her father a Medical Doctor, fondly called her Adaure,meaning;Daughter of Pride.Ugo is intelligent,witty and calm.She is a moralist,too principled.Staring straight into the wall opposite her,her mind drifted back to her first relationship.Gozie...Gozie was a smooth guy,his popularity was record breaking on campus.Ugo was shot into focus by her relationship with Gozie,she didn't like it.she called it cheap popularity.Students called her Ugo Gozie to dinstinguish her from her course mate who was also Ugo.What are you famous for,she would query him?.Because you are handsome and the girls like you?.But isn't that the same reason you love me?,he would quickly tease her.Giving him  a helpless look,she would shake her head in surrender.Ugo loved Gozie and Gozie loved Ugo or so it seemed but Gozie was a ladies man.He had a way with girls on campus.Ugo remembered going to see him one night as agreed.As she opened the door,she saw Gozie right on top of her room mate Susan,both were naked.Ugo couldn't comprehend it,Susan?Susan who had told her severally to do away with Gozie,he was not her class?.It was a shock that tormented her for a long time,even though she would later forgive Gozie and take him back,unknown to her that scar is yet to heal...

TO BE  CONTINUED...

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Oscar said…
Welcome back Amanda...good to have you back.
April 2, 2012 at 12:11 PM
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