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Love or duty? The silent struggles of women with alcoholic husbands

Drunk man on the sofa. (Courtesy/iStockphoto)

Just the other day, I bumped into my longtime client Baraza.

It's been a while since he last came to my shop and I couldn't recognize him but he was the one who spotted me first and he stopped to say hello. I knew Baraza some few years ago and he was a lean tall guy. By then he was struggling with alcohol and I would most of the time shave him while dead drunk.

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