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Choosing Death

“My birth is a mistake that can be corrected only by my death,” I told her.

Olisa Eloka
Sep 30, 2019
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I needed help. I had become a wrecked ship lost at sea. 

It was my sophomore year. I was at Ekehuan campus, studying Mass Communication. My grades were faltering; I had failed an advertising course because the lecturer whipped out a question he never really taught and made it the mandatory one. In my freshman year, I’…

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