How My NYSC Landlady Changed My Life Forever
How My NYSC Landlady Changed My Life Forever episode 6
Episode 6 (Finale): The Weight I Still Carry After that tensed up encounter with my landlady… … I knew I couldn’t stay there any longer. Everything felt heavy.Each step in the compound sounded like betrayal.Each time I fetched water, I felt her watching.Every night, I lay awake, staring at the ceiling, asking myself: What really […]
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Episode 5: The Day Everything Got Out of Hand I tried to avoid her again. After the day she showed me Chinedu’s room and asked me to “pretend to be him,” I told myself she was grieving, not thinking straight. Maybe I had triggered old wounds. Maybe it was time to change apartments. But I […]
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Episode 4: The Secret Behind the Locked Room She knocked again.This time, not gently.It was firm. Almost urgent. It was two days after that strange night — the one where she held my hand and whispered, “I’m here.”Since then, I had been avoiding her—rushing off to school early, staying out late, pretending to nap anytime […]
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Episode 3: The Night She Touched My Hand The night was warm and still. I had just returned from CDS and was too tired to cook. The moment I dropped my bag, there was a soft knock on my door. “Mummy?” I called. “It’s me,” she replied, as usual — softly. She held a bowl […]
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Episode 2: The Day I Called Her “Mummy” Three weeks passed. By then, I had settled into the rhythm of NYSC life. Wake up. Iron my khaki. Jump bike to school. Return dusty and tired. Fetch water. Sleep. Repeat. The compound was quiet. The kind of place you could hear your thoughts echo. No children […]
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How My NYSC Landlady Changed My Life Forever
Episode 1: The Room I Almost Rejected I still remember the day I first met her — Mrs. Adaora Uche, my NYSC landlady. If I had listened to my instincts, I would’ve walked away from that dusty compound in Enugu the very moment I stepped into it. The gate creaked like it hadn’t been opened […]
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