Shortly after the birth of their twins, she left him. He had slapped her in a moment of wild rage, the one thing she had always told him she would never condone.
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The next time Ojonwa received a beating from her husband, she had tried to convince him to allow her to get a job. Appalled, he asked how the children will be cared for during work hours.
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There was nowhere and no one Grace could turn to as she did not grow up with friends and her father whom she grew up with had disowned her after she had gotten pregnant out of wedlock.