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Life tragedies condemned me to a life of pain, struggles

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Doris Njoka at her home. She survives a deadly road crash but is now battling cancer and other ailments. [Courtesy, Standard]

In this world, there are those who live by the collective triaphilia-the steeped belief that certain events occur in threes.

While Doris Njoka might not be alive to this, it seems like her life is hinged on the mercies of the gods, who have turned her life into a three-pronged tragedy, in their macabre comedy that life now presents to her. A life of pain, more pain and even more pain.

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