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Part 11 – Save the Whale, Please?

September 23, 2018September 23, 2018All

23 September 2018 Part 11 – Save the Whale, Please? At the end of Part 10 the honeymoon ended, as do all good things. In real life, I returned to my new home with Shafiq

Part 10 – Jumping off the cliff

September 16, 2018September 23, 2018All

16 September 2018 I ended in Part 9 with my father’s departure from this world. Shafiq did not take long to propose after my tragic loss, and I graciously, if somewhat cautiously accepted. My dad,

Part 9 – “You gave me a forever within the numbered days”

September 9, 2018September 9, 2018All, MY STORY

9 September 2018 In part 8 I had met Shafiq and all seemed well. Unlike in the movies, meeting my life partner is not the happy ending. In fact, as life goes, it inevitably is

Part 8 – Mr Right on radio!

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018All, MY STORY

2 September 2018 After what almost seemed like a plot in a movie, having fled from Kenya, I returned home downtrodden. A close friend of mine, who had also gone through an extremely rough experience,

Part 7 – Mata Hari

August 26, 2018August 26, 2018All, MY STORY

26 August 2018 I ended Part 6 in Nairobi, Kenya, with my Arab husband coming at me with a broken coffee table raised above his head, and then by the grace of God retreating without

Part 6 – Arabian Svengali in Africa

August 19, 2018August 19, 2018All, MY STORY

19 August 2018 In Part 5 of my story I relayed how my childhood ‘molestation’ experience had shaped my school years and influenced my narrative. In fact, rather than hooking my reactions onto the experience,

Part 5 – Iron Fist

August 12, 2018August 12, 2018All

12 August 2018 Part 4 of my story ended with the narration of my experience as a child at the hands of a disturbed adult and my long journey towards healing and forgiveness. Save to

Part 4 – “Come lie with me little girl”

August 5, 2018August 6, 2018All, MY STORY

5 August 2018 In Part 3, I described an unwanted sexual encounter in my early twenties when my resounding “No!” was ignored by a man with a sense of entitlement to my body. A common

Part 3 – No!

July 29, 2018October 8, 2021All, MY STORY

8 October 2021 The rewrite… This post has haunted me for some time now. I often question how honest I was to myself and to my readers about what really happened that night all those

Part 2 – Waiting to exhale

July 22, 2018August 16, 2018MY STORY

22 July 2018 The punch party was not yet the turning point for me. A few other things hap first. One night in particular, stands out as what I can easily describe as one of the

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