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"Sisi served papa the tea."

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"He said that every year, but we always climbed into the car so that Kevin could take us, so that he could watch us"

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"Amaka was a thinner, teenage copy of her mother. She walked and talked even faster and with more purpose than Aunty Ifeoma did." "They were quizzical eyes, eyes that asked many questions and did not accept many answers."

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"Father benedict had changed things in the parish ... be recited in only Latin; Igbo was not acceptable."

" ' brother Eugene!' Father Benedict said. His pale face broke into a smile when he saw papa."

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" Mama hovered by him. "Let me pour your tea," she offered, although she never severed papa's tea".

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"He looked like a stuffed doll, and because he was always smiling, the deep dimples in his pillowy cheeks looked like permanent fixtures, as though someone had sunk a stick into his cheeks.

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"It was the fearlessness about her, about the way she gestured as she spoke, the way she smiledto show that wide gap."

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"Why do you think I work so hard to give you and Jaja the best? You have to do something with all these privileges. Because God has given you much, he expects much from you. He expects perfection."

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"Amaka was a thinner teenage copy of her mother, she walked and talked even faster and with more purpose than Aunty Ifeoma did.''

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"Amaka was a thinner, teenage copy of her mother."

"Aunty Iefoma was as tall as papa, with a well proportioned body."

"amaka wore the same bright lipstick as her mother"

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"Mama did not mind; there was so much that she did not mind" Page 19

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" I wondered how Amaka did it, how she opened her mouth and had words flow easily out."

pg. 99

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"I wanted to tell her..."

pg. 118

She repeats it throughout the book.

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"His face crumpled, his eyelids sagged. 'Why do you walk into sin?' He asked, 'Why do you like sin.' Papa crushed Papa and me to his body, 'Did the belt hurt you, did it break skin?"

-Pg102

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Due to limited options, we were not able to add red lipstick, however we would have if we were able to. 

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"Listening to African music and dreaming unrealistic dreams."

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"I told her to eat corn flakes before she took Panadol, Papa. I made it for her."

-Pg102

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"I wondered how Amaka did it, how she opened her mouth and had words flow easily out."

-Pg99

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" That night I dreamed that I was laughing, but it did not sound like my laughter, although I was not sure what my laughter sounded like."

'' I did not think, i did not even think to think, what mama needed to be forgiven for. "

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"A wrapper was slung across his body and tied behind his neck, over a once white singlet now browned by age and yellowed at the arm-pits."

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Due to limited choices, this was the shirt chosen, however, we would have chosen something of less colour. 

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"But there, it was out. It was only when I was alone with Jaja that the bubbles in my throat let my words come out."