***My Young Friend*** Two years ago, I was on a business trip to Abuja when a young acquaintance visited in my hotel suite to introduce his fiancée, one vivacious dark-eyed beauty. Since it was the first time I met the girl, I just kept quiet and listened to her spar with her young man. Though I didn’t say much, I felt the young man had chosen the wrong type of beauty – the insufferably insouciant “bia tiem m’elee” type of beauty. After they left, I felt sad for the young man knowing ...
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