No One Tells You Adulthood Is a Lot Of “Accept My Condolences”

They say death is inevitable

Blessing Oluchukwu Awamba
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readMar 26, 2024

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A black-and-white photo of a beautiful black girl looking into your eyes. This depicts how I’d sit my younger self down and share this story if I was told earlier.
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The first time I ever had to visit a bereaved person, I was in the company of my friends. Our classmate lost his dad and had not been in school for a week. As we all sat in their living room, his mother brought us groundnuts to munch on as we laughed and gave him the gist of which teacher was tormenting our…

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Blessing Oluchukwu Awamba
Human Parts

I write about life; as I experience it, as I know it; as it could be better.