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Rejected by his family, man finds a home in hospital

Goddie is probably in his 80s but no one here can recall his exact age. He is slim, tall, dark and a bit frail. He has lived his life to the fullest, as the millennials would put it.

He spends his evening alone watching the sun setting over the Eburu Mountain outside his little shanty built decades ago in Gilgil hospital compound. He is probably now looking back, with a lot satisfaction at a life well lived.

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