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Growing up on the farm in Kaguria, Homa Bay County, my grandma Beldinah always warned me against overtaxing my imagination.

Nyar Oyuke told me never to assign goats the task of pulling an ox plough. Likewise, she cautioned me against hitching up chicken to a plough and expect them to prepare a garden for sowing.

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