Erhuvwun rarely sang these days, but when she did, they were songs of immense sadness and loss.  In the blink of an eye, without any warning at all, her whole world came crashing down on her.

It was last month when it happened.  She was in her second trimester and had been feeling some odd pains in her abdomen.  However, because she’d never been pregnant before, she’d thought it was a normal stage of pregnancy.  Then a few days after the pains started, she began to bleed heavily.  At the time, she’d been washing clothes at the stream, and she’d moved as fast as she could to get to Amadi, but it was already too late…

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