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was dawn and Agatha just clocked 7. She opened her eyes on the ragged foam she slept on in the sitting room. The candle had already burnt out.

The crock had just crowed and she knew it was supposed to be a memorable year.  The birds too were humming and their song sounded similar to “ And she's a very good fellow”. But Agatha had never felt like a good fellow. She knew she was bad at everything. It wasn't that she wasn't too sure. She knew she was one of the worst human beings in the world. She could never do anything right. 

Her heart began to beat fast when she remembered what her last year's birthday looked like. She was scared of what today would look like too.

Her big aunty whom she lived with had been maltreating her since she was a child. Agatha's mother and father were separated when she was four. After the separation which took her father away from home since then, her mother began to expose her to different forms of abuse. At her alcohol shop under a mahogany tree on the street, she would ask her daughter to take dry gin and sometimes hard drugs to the houses of men without bothering about what happened to her. For all she cared, the family needed to alleviate their suffering and Agatha was unfortunate to have been her first daughter. This continued for years until one of the men raped the poor girl and still placated her mother by promising to sponsor her education. 

It was not long after this that the news got to some of Agatha's father's relatives who took her away from the mother and asked her to start living with her father's younger sister.

Her hopes were high that things would turn around but it became worse. Mummy as she fondly calls her would give her own children the best of meals, clothes, and other good things but make Agatha to suffer sometimes going for

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