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Never give up



Am lot fatdisa akwash am 23 years old.i lost my mum when I was 6 and am the only child in my mum.i crew up in a village with my grandmother and later on my dad brought me to the city to stay with my stepmother which was a horrible experience,which I wish I can go back to my grandmother. I started college later I got pregnant  at 19 and my dad said I should get out of his house which I did,i pack my things and went to the guy that got me pregnant.i stayed in the guy's house with his mum and brothers. I was going to school and nobody was there to support me,I struggle to pay part of my fee and my transportation to school everyday.nobody care to ask me how I was cupping yet I never give up.when i gave birth to my daughter her grandmother refused to help me hold her so that I can be going to school because she never wanted me to complete my studies,I have to be taking her to my lectures hall and my lecturers later on said they can't take it.i had to start selling sweets and chocolate in school so I can afford to pay her daycare, transportation and feedings. In this process the guy's family now said I should leave their house they guy don't have a say of his own in the family. I had to leave they house and start again without my child because I can't go with her because I had no place to start going accept school. But now am on my own and am a final year student of estate management university of jos Nigeria. In life no matter what happened never think of giving up because you don't know what will happened tomorrow...

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