“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.”

slept. Today was supposed to be the day you looked at it and told yourself, ‘I made it.’” I told her what Chidima said, that she no longer wanted a man who looked like he’d been struggling all his life. “In front of that other man? And you still stood there?” “What was I supposed to do? Fight her on my graduation day?” “No. You were supposed to walk continue reading …