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RAYS OF HOPE PART 4

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Kate. NEW LIFE. On January 3 rd , mum resumed selling the Indian hemp but this time, she would go for as long as three days at a stretch before returning back home. Whenever I beg her to take me along because I was not doing anything at home, she would tell me to stay at home that it would be better without having to worry about me when she is being chased by the police. Dad continued to do nothing except smoking, drinking alcohol and beating mum and i. One day, four men came into our house. I’ve never seen them before because I knew all the people that dad and mum used to hand out with. All of them were taller than dad and my dad too is not short at all, yet these men were taller and huge. I was afraid of them because they were like the giants mentioned in the bible who were sent out of heaven but later came down to the earth to mix with and corrupt human beings. Even mum who was older was afraid of them. They spent two days in our house, drinking, smoking and talking i

RAYS OF HOPE PART 3

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I and the Smiths. "I'm sorry about your Mum...” she said. Forty minutes later, I sneaked out of the hospital to the nearest ice cream vendor and bought two large cones for us.  I hid the ice cream in my cloths when I got to the reception and pass the Argus eyed nurses on duty.  Immediately I got back into her ward, we closed the door and we began licking them. "Thanks Rose" she said, devouring the ice-cream as quickly as she could with all the wires and tubes attached to the body "I have been begging mum for ice cream for almost three months now but she wouldn't let me touch it, she keeps saying it is doctor's order that I shouldn't touch ice cream" I laughed at this. "Eat everything then if you can" I encouraged “if you need more, I'll get it because I have magic and the nurses will never see me when I walk past them in the reception." I said conspiratorially. We were still licking the ice cream when her par