After he got in the car and left, I kept thinking, who is this man? How did he know my mother? When my mother came home, I told her that a british mr. Ader from abroad came to her, and she was very surprised. "Mr. Alder?" she kept asking, as if deaf.

Then she started crying, crying softly because she didn't want dad to hear it. It took another three weeks before I dared to ask her why she was so surprised and even crying. She told me that mr ader came from a very wealthy family. She said he lived in lagos many years ago, but would come to ikati for the holidays to stay with his cell numbers list grandmother. One day, mr. Ader came to buy fried dough from his mother, and he fell in love with her. Love deeply. She said he was her first boyfriend and the only person she ever loved. The two of them made a lifelong plan to marry. But mom didn't go to school, so mr. Ader's family opposed the marriage. Mr ader said he would kill himself if he couldn't marry his mother, and his family took him on a plane and sent him abroad. Mom cried and cried, but was forced by her family to marry dad, a man she didn't love. And now, he's about to do the same to me.

That day, mom said, "Aduni, I can't marry the person I love because I haven't been to school. I want to go outside this village, I want to count a lot of money, I want to read a lot of books, but these are all it didn't happen." then she took my hand. "Aduni, for god's sake I will do my best to send you to school, because I want you to have a chance to live a different life. I want you to speak english well, because everyone in nigeria knows english, english the better you say it, the more likely you are to get a good job.”