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When your father is the sponsor of your wife to be

When I was young, I sold sugarcane at the entrace of  our humble homestead. Being a young man with hot blood runningin my veins, I had my crushes; to impress them I would voluntarily give them free sugarcane. Unfortunately, none of them embraced me.

Worse enough, the one who happened to be so close to me slept with a guy who was twice my age; I felt betrayed and confronted her, but I was shocked with her words; "you are poor, you cannot offer anything better apart from the sugarcane."  I walked away shamelessly, hoping for a miracle to turn around my life and make me a better person.
 

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