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The Secret Room
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My family has owned the old red-bricked colonial house for generations. My grandmother, Kate, and I lived there. The large house stood like a lone sentry on a green, sloping hill facing Lake Victoria.
I hated this place because of the cold breeze at night. Other rooms smelled of burnt pinewood and cypress.
As a kid, I wandered the entire house and played in every nook and crannie. There was a room that my grandmother forbade me to enter. I attempted to gain entry several times, but my stern grandmother barked at me like a rabid dog.
She fell sick and the doctor diagnosed her with breast cancer. Often, I drove her to the cancer wing at Mulago Hospital for chemotherapy sessions.
Several months later, her condition deteriorated. Her doctor...
My family has owned the old red-bricked colonial house for generations. My grandmother, Kate, and I lived there. The large house stood like a lone sentry on a green, sloping hill facing Lake Victoria.
I hated this place because of the cold breeze at night. Other rooms smelled of burnt pinewood and cypress.
As a kid, I wandered the entire house and played in every nook and crannie. There was a room that my grandmother forbade me to enter. I attempted to gain entry several times, but my stern grandmother barked at me like a rabid dog.
She fell sick and the doctor diagnosed her with breast cancer. Often, I drove her to the cancer wing at Mulago Hospital for chemotherapy sessions.
Several months later, her condition deteriorated. Her doctor...
