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If your friends are only good in secret, what does that say about you?
“Mum, you know that these outdated ideas of the perfect woman are just that—outdated—and a little misogynistic. Who cares if I look bloated? Also what’s wrong with bloated? It’s still me. If someone can’t like bloated me, they’re not worth it.”
Men are hardheaded. They will use all their gasoline before they realize you were born from fire.
“I don’t think I’m ready for anyone. And I really am not in the mood for it. Big things could be happening at work, and I want to focus on me.” Cora sat back and took a long sip. “That’s some shit women say when their pussies are dried up.”
Marriage is helping a man to learn how to help himself.
As we walked into the crowd, I introduced him to bofrot, which he’d never had. But the moment he took a bite, he moaned. It was basically an air-filled fried pastry, but he likened it to an orgasm in edible form.
Food to try!
“Plantain. Always plantain. It doesn’t matter how you make it. Baked, fried, however. That’s how I want it.”
Food to try!
When we found the kelewele stand, my stomach grumbled. Cole bought me a bunch wrapped in newspaper, and I ate merrily. “This is so good.”
Food to try!
“Think about your next move very carefully, obroni. One day, one of your friends, or perhaps your mother, is going to say something to my daughter, something that aims to dim her light or to make her feel small, so they can feel powerful. And you won’t see it. You’ll tell yourself that you will. You tell yourself that you’ll believe her, but you won’t. And when you don’t protect her, you will break her just a little.
That’s because you fucked up and fell in love when you really should have known better.
Every minute away from you was like a void that sucked the essence of my very existence. It’s like the air was pulled out of me, and I couldn’t breathe. So I made a promise to myself to do anything possible to get you back at my side.”
I know I have a lot of work to do to prove to you what I actually mean. I’m trying. So I’m going to keep doing the things I should have done since the night I first met you on my uncle’s balcony until you take me back. I’m going to keep turning up for you. I’m going to keep showing you that even though I don’t deserve you, I am sorry for making you feel like this was the Yofi situation all over again. I thought I was doing the right thing, but I clearly wasn’t, and I’m fucking miserable because of it.”
I’ve always wanted you, but all the same obstacles are still in our way.” She wasn’t wrong, but I didn’t care. “I know. And it won’t be easy. But two weeks without you and I felt like I was dying inside. We belong together because that’s what we want, and fuck anyone who has anything to say about it. I will never leave your side again. I can’t breathe without you.” I swiped away another tear on her cheek as I spoke. “I’m going to kiss you now, okay?” More tears followed as she laughed and cried. As I slid my lips over hers, I knew that I was the luckiest, happiest person alive. I would do
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I love you. I’ve loved you from the moment we met. I’ve loved you from the moment you decided you hated me. I’ve loved you from the moment that you decided that you might like me. I’ve loved you through it all, and I will continue to love you until my dying day. I promise to always strive to be better, to do better, to learn more. To be a man worthy of you. Will you marry me?”
Nobody can tell you who or how to love. You have to fumble in the dark like the rest of us.
