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he puts the plas

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ving I'm sure everyone at the place I live at will be lookin

me about

t so blank when someone asks me th

ell really, my life is

n interesting story, I just ask

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ains they knew I was on my way(I smiled thinking about it) but fortunately my mother

eally summarised version" he said raising an eye

w older I learnt that she wasn't I found a diary. At the

I mentioned the rape part) a lot has been happenin

what I felt at that moment but it felt like a relief, like a massiv

e way you should describ

ing up t

awkward person especially around a guy Sandile on

fferent. I was invited by Monde for family lunch at his house, normally I wouldn't have agreed to come but this was Monde we w

s getting to him. He kept his clothes beneath his pillow after fitting them he couldn't let them out of his sight. It didn't help

ngs later. Chronicles of being a single mother come to think about it I should write a book that I'm sure it would be interesting even. For now, let me enj

just below the knees and with heels that my cousin lent me I don't own any pair of heels I think

nse. There was a security guy at their gate I didn't understand exactly how rich the guy was I mean who in their right mind build such

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ou sa

you won't be intimidated by

mily?" h

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he two of us maybe not the two of us but I didn't think he was going to

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d the energetic lady who greeted us earlier she got in and kissed the guy who spoke I guesse