"He constantly stressed me out when we worked."
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"I knew no one in Bayelsa. The first night, a stranger offered me his room."
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"Nigeria makes the decision for you. Every pothole, every blackout, every moment of fear pushes you a little closer to the airport."
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"You make all these plans thinking they will work out, but life is crazy. It’s even crazier and messier when you are a Nigerian in Nigeria."
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"I convince myself those skills won’t pay off, so I abandon them. Whenever I spend time outside my PhD work, guilt eats me up."
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"I see us traveling the world together, Greece, Paris, London. I see us living joyfully, side by side, chasing dreams and building memories."
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"When I was pregnant with this child, my husband often warned me. He said if I gave him another girl, he would take me back to the village."
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"All we have to show for it are piles of we regret to inform you emails and the fading light in my sister’s eyes."
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"My brain worked twice as fast as I searched for a way to escape."
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"Instead, he blamed me. He called me careless, mocked me, even said I wasn’t behaving like a 'modern babe.'”