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*FED AND NEGLECTED 1*
If my mom was at home that day when I dressed on a short skirt and went out, the story of my life would have been different. Instead, she travels round the world attending to various businesses and my father would always return late because he keeps a mistress secretly in his life that would help him feel womanhood because my mom was never available for him or me; she didn’t know when I had my first menstruation, or grew to b a woman. She never knew if I kept a boyfriend or not. All she knew was to pay my school fees, send money for whatsoever I desire and sent me to the best school though she never knew I wasn’t serious with my studies. We were well fed, provided for but neglected. She looked at her daughter and told her, my mother’s mistake on me, I won’t repeat on you. Go back inside and dress properly if you don’t want me to hit the hell out of you. Come on! Get inside and cover up and don’t be a foolish girl. She had told her uncountable times to cover up properly but she wouldn’t adhere to her. she dress up near naked; sometimes her skirts is so short that you’ll see her panties when she bends, sometimes her gown so transparent that you’ll see her entire bra and body, her trousers are so tight on her that it literally sticks on her skin, and most times decency would forbid you from describing how she looks in some of her dresses. Her mother had burnt many of such indecent cloths yet somehow she still buys more and more. All the decent beautiful dresses that her mother had bought for her, she had given out either as gift or packed somewhere inside her bag. She only manages to wear to church meetings wherever her mom had to force her to go for the meetings.
Later that night, she’ll invite her daughter to give her the full story of her life and how she gave birth to her. She had failed in forcing her to dress decently and to quit drugs and alcohols in vain and now she hoped by telling her her full story that she may understand and reform. She looked at her and told her, you know, as I’ve always said, if my mother was around that day, I wouldn’t had dressed nude and what happened to me that ruined my life wouldn’t had. The daughter now asked, what happened? she looked at her as if she was going to begin crying as she recount and said, it was in the….
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*FED AND NEGLECTED 2*
That evening, I was to visit my boyfriend, in my heart; I felt that going out that day looking like that would ruin my life. I just knew but I didn’t know how I knew so I needed someone to tell me to dress proper so I asked the wrong people, how do I look? And instead of them to condemn my look, they said ‘I’m sexy and hot’. Being sexy and hot was going to ruin me yet these people were encouraging it as if they were ganging with the devil to ruin my life. Though I didn’t want to look that way, I was too weak to tell myself correct myself. So I went to my supposed new boyfriend and when I was with him, his friends would visit and asked if he has had me and he said no that today was my first day. They asked if he loves me, he said no he didn’t its just that I was too sexy and hot that’s why he proposed love me to me. So they told him to rape me there and then. I overheard everything but I never knew he was capable to doing such. He together with his friends would rape me that evening and it was every easy because I was almost naked already and I couldn’t report to anybody or scream because if you see how I look, it was like I invited the rape. Amongst those four men, one is your father; I couldn’t tell them I was pregnant because I didn’t know which of them is responsible. My mother was never around to advise or correct me; she left me at the mercy of our house help. Our first house help wanted to help me; correct me when I was wrong, scold me to dress properly and do my assignment but one day my mom caught her while she was rebuking me and sacked her telling her she had to right to speak harshly to me. My mom thought she was doing me a favor but she never knew that she was ruining my life by sacking the only person that was telling me the truth. My dad would send me abroad to have you afterwards but life never remained the same for me. I wasn’t up to 16 years when this happened to me; so young and naïve. I started drinking alcohol, doing drugs and living a very careless life because of that single event, I couldn’t continue schooling because I kept failing. I became so loosed to men and I don’t love my current life. Please my daughter, don’t follow same path. Don’t dress too sexy, men are beast and if you trigger that beastly nature in them, you’ll suffer the consequences. Men take you the way you present yourself to them; if you present yourself decent, they may try your decency and if you insist on it, they’ll accept and respect you as such and if you appear before them as a prostitute, they’ll treat you as such, even rape you if you don’t want. She believed her daughter would reform after this pep talk but ….
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*FED AND NEGLECTED 3*
She nodded like she was following all her mother was saying; instead she became more secretive in her nude dresses. She puts those dresses in her bags when she goes to school and from school, she’ll dress indecent and visit places. One day, her mother would catch her dressed nude. She had visited same bar with her mother unwittingly but she didn’t have the guts to scold her after all, she is guilty of the same offense she intends to correct in her daughter. When they got home that day, she thought to herself, how can I correct my daughter, my life is ruined already, I don’t want hers to be. Maybe I should be an example for her, but how can I be an example to her? How can I offer her what I don’t have? She thought about it a little while and distracted herself with a glass of wine. The more she felt frustrated at her helplessness to help her only daughter, she more she drank herself to stupor.
Her daughter would now openly dress nude, take alcohols and go to parties. She would shout at her mother if she dares to correct her and soon her mother wouldn’t dare correct her though it hurt her greatly.
One day a preacher would come and preach to her and invite her to her church. When she got there, their dresses weren’t any different from hers. She was afraid the transformation she needed, she won’t be able to find in such a church so she stopped attending. This church dresses like the world, yes I’m in the world, the girls there don’t look better than me she said to herself and sighed. If I convince my daughter to follow me to this church, she’ll get worse and all hope for her to be more decent would be lost.
What are my going to do? Who can help me and my daughter find salvation? She had tried herself to reform in vain: On the first day of several new years she had taken New Year resolutions not to party, dress indecent or take alcohols in vain. Nothing within her power has worked. She is so desperate to change so that her daughter can look up to her and change too and now she needs divine help and God was about to send it to her and it comes in the most unlikely way…
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*FED AND NEGLECTED 4*
If you put your trust in men, you’ll be disappointed. That was the voice of an early morning preacher. It got stuck in her spirit, I’ve been trusting in my effort to bring about my reformation and that of my beloved daughter in vain, that’ why it hasn’t worked. I trust in my counsel, I trust in my words, I trust in my scolding, I trust in those pep talks oh I see! This is why I fail. I am not transformed, yet I want to transform my daughter. She then opened to the passage of the scripture quoted by the early morning preacher and it reads ‘Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. Jer. 17:5’
How can I trust in the Lord over my life? How can I trust in the Lord over that of my daughter she reasoned then she’ll put a call through to the preacher and asked the questions. Believe in the Lord and you and your household would be saved was his first reply and gave an instance where man sent for Peter and scripture testifies that ‘Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. Acts 11:14’ he and his household would be saved. The preacher told her that if she’ll receive the word, like that man in Acts, she and her household would be saved. There was nothing she wanted more than to see her daughter not walking in her footsteps. She told the preacher she wants to receive the word and he’ll lead her to Christ and for the first time, she had peace and was filled with joy. Her daughter could notice the joyful countenance on her face; she had never seen her mother like that before. She had known her mother to be a very bitter, discontented and angry woman who doesn’t know how to love though she really wants to. She knows her mother to be loosed to men and that makes her angry and bitter and stubborn to her. But today looks different, she couldn’t describe it but she knew there is something so special. What happened to you mummy she asked?...
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*FED AND NEGLECTED FINALE*
I received Christ last night she told her. Then she recounted all her encounter with that early morning preacher and the joy and peace she felt afterwards.
The daughter became interested in whatsoever that would make her look as peaceful and joyful like her mother; she asked for the number of the preacher and soon she too would give her life to Christ.
The mother never knew she had called the preacher only that she saw her burning her supposed sexy and nude cloths. She came to her mother and said, mom I have some confession to make; I’ve aborted like 4 times, I was afraid you’ll drive me out of the house if you knew I got pregnant. I practiced lesbianism, slept with my cousin when he visited us last year, and tried smoking a few times. The mother would also confess similar thing; all her daughter confessed to her were the very things she too were guilty of, she had hidden her evil from her daughter but right now, she just learnt that nothing can really be hidden, if you do evil and hide it from your kids, they too would practice such evil and hid it away from you. The best way to be a good parent is to lead by example, the good you do secretly they’ll emulate and the bad you do behind closed doors they’ll outdo you even openly. After they confessed these to one another, they both prayed to God and ask for forgiveness again. The daughter would call the cousin and told him how what they did was wrong and how she was sorry for her part in it.

Today she looked at her daughter and for the first time in her life she had hope not just for herself but for her daughter. All the fears that her daughter would amount to nothing like her had disappeared. She just knows in her spirit that it is well with them.
The end.
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