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She Was ‘Married’ To A Ghost For Years Without Knowing It
This is a shocking story my neighbour once told me
If not that I had watched a Nollywood movie entitled “The Haunted House”; I would not have had any form of idea of such probable possibility.
In literature, we were taught of the “willing suspension of self disbelief”. That means that you do not dismiss a work of art as a piece of falsehood, based on your personal doubt.
She was a distant relative of my neighbour. Her name is not too important here.
But if you insist, her name was Mary. She lived in a big Nigerian city called Lagos.
Recently, my good friend, Flora wrote a story about the (de)merits of living in big cities. This story is definitely one of the demerits, I believe.
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Mary met Oko. They mutually admired each other. One thing led to the other. Both got married.
Sorry, they did not get married. They started cohabitation. They never bothered about their mutual relatives.
They began breeding children: first, second, third, fourth … They were happily…
