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Dark side of 'wife material' expectations

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Kenyans feed on gossip about the relationships and extramarital entanglements of other people like it is nectar. And if the drama involves celebs, they suck on that nectar with the kind of fury a newly released convict unleashes on the first whore they bump into.

There is a spiritual warfare going on right here against marriage. We are shocked when marriage works and stupidly excited when it fails. And you know what? Marriage is 90 percent wife material, or so they say.

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