“My Girlfriend Of Five Years Left Me On My Graduation Day Because I Hadn’t ‘Become Something.’ Months Later, I Was Carrying Blocks For 13 Naira Each When She Pulled Up In Her New Man’s G-Wagon And Laughed, ‘Is This The Big Plan?’ She Had No Idea What I’d Just Found In A Stone On My Way Home.”

the block yard the next day, a colleague who’d studied alongside me taunted me again. “You studied geology, didn’t you? Some people were always talking about their future in school, but look where they ended up. You always claimed to be the most intelligent student in the class.” “I’m not insulting you.” “You have insulted me already.”

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