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"And in 1990"Once upon a Mama... Once upon a daughter...Ep4
Aduke came back to Mama Wùnmi's shop from Iya Kaduna restaurant.

"Did you enjoy your food?" Mama Wùnmi asked Aduke.
"Yes ma, I did." Aduke answered her.

"Okay, don't worry my daughter,... I will do something about it, you will go back home very soon,. Ehn... Did you understand me?" Mama Wùnmi said to Aduke who is extremely relieved to hear this.

"Okay ma." Aduke replied her.

"Look,... One of my daughters just came back from school... you would have meet her on your way, I mean when you are coming here. She also went to Iya Kaduna's restaurant to buy food, she will be back very soon, so you can talk to her and play together...hmmn." Mama Wùnmi said to Aduke.

It was a beautiful day for Mama Wùnmi, She just feel comfortable with Aduke, and something within her do not want to let the girl go.


Wùnmi came back after eating her food at Iya Kaduna's restaurant.
Before she could asked her mother who Aduke is, Mama Wùnmi told Wùnmi to meet her new friend.

Wùnmi is around thirteen years old, she is Mama Wùnmi last child and she has an elder sister, Bimpe and an elder brother, Remi.

Bimpe is in Form 1 at Fiwasaye community high school and her Elder brother, Remi, is in Form 3 at the same school.

Aduke was shy at first and was holding back, but when her new friend, Wùnmi start reading from the "Alawiye" book 1, Aduke join her.
From talking about the poems to the stories. It was an happy moment for the two children.

"What class her you?" Mama Wùnmi asked Aduke, and she told her she was in Primary one.
"Oh! You are in the same class? No wonder." Mama Wùnmi said.

Mama Wùnmi love Aduke and want her to stay with her.

That day, she took Aduke to Mummy Kalu's shop, Mummy Kalu sells clothes in the area, Mummy Wùnmi bought some clothes for Aduke to change with because she was still wearing her school uniform.


As they were...