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I was young and naive, I should be about 7 to 8 years old. She took advantage of my ignorance but thank God for seeing us through.

HoW do you realize that she has the ailment

I noticed she was being segregated in the compound.

One time she was eating yam and oil but could not finish it so she gave it to I and my siblings to eat and we ate.

Although, I wondered why she didn't just give it to her sister seeing that we were all in the house together.

She was quite sickly I think hers progressed to full blown AIDS as she was pale and emaciated. Then the use of our knife to scrape her tongue. I didn't know what it was she was scraping then till I got older and started reading about the ailment.

When she goes to another neighbour's house to watch a movie, they will spread wrapper on their bed before she sits on it.

I always wondered why till she died. That was when it blew upon it was the ailment that killed her.