An African woman's story.
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07
Publication Title: WORLD
Format: Online
Author: Khanna, Naina

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I grew up in a big family. Things were good when I was young, but when my dad took a second wife, my parents started to fight. Things were so bad at home I often spent the night at a friend's place. She had a 25-year-old brother who took care of me. He bought my school uniforms and even my sanitary pads. We got married and three years later he told me he had a son whose mother had just passed away. So we took in the boy. I had two children of my own shortly after that. I had been teaching for some years but transferred to the hotel industry because the pay was better. I was doing a lot of traveling for my job and that's when my own marriage started to take a turn.

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My husband and my close friend had an affair. She died of AIDS and two years later my husband got very sick and passed away. In my country, we mourn for 40 days....



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