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HEARD ABOUT ESE?

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Have you heard about Ese?  Golden black Ese as we used to call her.  Her skin so beautiful that most people called her the goddess of the black race.  She went to papa Ijebu, who mixed pepper with lemon water, he added a little bit of carol white and a pinch of something which name, I can't recall. Suddenly the black in her skin vanished like magic, she was now "African snow white"  and she reigned in her head and her new found skin.  Ese was walking on the air, almost like her new skin gave her super powers.  Awhile later, there were cracks, itches,scratches and peelings... Her body was at war with itself.  Ese's skin changed colors more rapidly than a chameleon, no one could keep up. Then came the decay that went from her skin deep inside of her and in a flash, she was gone.   Ese died trying to be who she wasn't, she was so dissatisfied with being black in a black skin and I wonder why, what is so wrong with being black?  
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THE STROKES OF DEATH

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Death, the most unwanted and yet so inevitable of them all. Such pain and grief one has to go through to lose someone dear. In just a single moment life really stops making sense and there is always that question "God why?" hanging on all our lips, with a few daring to ask even though we know God should not be questioned.  I lost a friend not too long ago, he was actually a family friend and it felt so unreal. I had seen him months before, looking all well and really healthy. He had a very unique laughter,full of life personality and was best at teasing me. On the day he visited he did all of those usual things and nothing informed us that that would be the last time we see him alive. Tosin was really dead and gone, it took a dreaded visit to his parents  weeks later to remove every doubt there was. His parents did well to hide their pain but brokeness can't be hidden, this pain is hard to hide because it is truly different from others. Amidst conversation his
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