Being different is not easy. My parents abandoned me because of my strange eyes, and no one wanted to adopt me. But soon after, God sent someone who gave me not just love “She’ll make things difficult for us. So, we don’t want to raise her.” That’s what my parents said when they gave me up at an orphanage.I wasn’t born blind but with unusual silver eyes. Usually, abandoned newborns are adopted quickly, but nobody wanted to adopt me. I can’t explain in words how terrible I felt when people looked down upon me just because I had unusual eyes.…
Author: town gist
My husband left me for a younger woman because he could not stand my body. He later regretted his actions, but by that time, it was already too late. You shouldn’t eat so much,” I heard as I lifted my head from the bowl of soup I’d been focused on. It came from my husband, Ray. He was a tall, handsome man who treated women like trophies. I knew because it was how he treated me. He loved showing me off to friends, but in recent years, that had changed. Now, he avoids it every time, like it’s the plague.…
Lana had been dating Ashton for several months before he asked her to move in with him and share the expenses of an apartment. They split everything equally for years until Lana discovered that Ashton had lied all along. “It’ll be great. We’re both recent graduates, so living together makes more sense. We split the bills 50-50, and both of us win,” Ashton told Lana. She wasn’t sure moving in together after eight months of dating was the best idea.“I don’t know, Ashton. It’s a big commitment. As you said, we both just graduated from school,” Lana said hesitantly. Well,…
I always thought it was my fault that my mother didn’t love me, but then she remarried and I realized exactly who and what she was. When I was three, I noticed that my mom was different from other moms. I’d see my little friends get picked up from playschool, and their mothers would pick them up and hug and kiss them.My mother never did. It was my dad who would swing me up in his arms and whirl me around, cuddle me and tickle me and tuck me at night. My mother was distant, but my father made up…
In an interview with TVC, Aduke said she just wants to rest as nothing is going to change even if her boyfriend and his friends are sent to jail.A young lady flogged by her boyfriend and friends has reacted.Aduke, an HND1 student of Bartholomew College of Health Shao, Kwara State was flogged after he accused her of cheating.In an interview with TVC, Aduke said she just wants to rest as nothing is going to change even if her boyfriend and his friends are sent to jail because what they did to her has already been done. ”I am not okay…
A selfish father chose to abandon his own daughter and adopt his new wife’s three children, but he lived to regret his actions. Ruth’s mom passed away when she was a teenager. A day after the funeral, she saw her father flirting with her mother’s best friend Barbara, and it shattered her world. At first, they tried to move around in secret, but they both dropped the pretense after she caught them getting intimate with one another. Eventually, Ruth’s father, John, kicked her out of the house because she made him feel guilty about his actions. A month or two…
I had an accident and slipped into a coma, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise because my wife and her concubine had been behind it. She hoped I would not come out of it alive, but I did. Will I die today?” that was the thought I had running through my head as I kept hitting my car’s brakes. I had been speeding down the highway in an attempt to return to my wife Elaine, who had called to tell me there was an intruder in our home. I had accelerated up to 80 km/hr when…
Prince 0dianosen Okojie, husband of Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson-Okojie, has garnered attention. With his funny response after learning that his wife will be expecting twin sonsThe mother of four used a pregnancy-detection app in a video posted on Instagram, and the results of the test indicated that she would give birth to twins. Excitedly asking her husband to see the test results, the actress. Prince Okojie fled from his wife after taking a look at it.He might have responded since Mercy Johnson and her husband already have four kids. Following the test result, Mercy Johnson’s husband stepped away from his…
My fiancé mistreated and prevented one of my female colleagues from attending our wedding. But that wasn’t the end of it… “No, Edward, she’s not allowed!” Laura said as we were discussing our wedding guests.“What’s wrong, darling?” I inquired, curious. “Why isn’t Melanie on the invite list?”Laura stood up and slammed the table. “Well, I don’t want her to come. That’s all!”I was confused. “But Laura, she’s one of my close friends. How can I invite others from my workplace and not her?”Laura glared at me. “I don’t know. It’s just that I don’t like her enough. So, she’s not…
A guy stole a bicycle he found parked near a hospital, but he did not get very far with it before Karma sought retribution in full. Nessa, an overworked 40-year-old doctor, had just finished an exhausting 12-hour shift at the hospital she worked at when she discovered that the only mode of transport she had, her old bicycle, had been stolen. She tried to find it; she looked around the hospital grounds and even approached bystanders around to ask if they had seen it, but neither action turned up her lost bike. Disheartened, Nessa returned to her small house. It…