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A special dedication to my father, with whom I share a birthday. Happy 55th Birthday, dear Abah.



I wish to inherit your business mind, work ethics and your sense of direction.

Thank you to the woman who birthed me into this world (whose cleverly devised plan to make sure I share a birthday with her was thwarted when I decided to pop out a few weeks earlier!)



I wish to inherit your brilliance, youthful vigour (figure??) and resourcefulness.

To the woman who tirelessly cared for me while my folks were busy earning a living (and who never fails to remind me of that broken tea pot story!)



I wish to inherit your wisdom and boundless capacity for love.

To the ladies whom I look up to, who had been my involuntary playmates and sketch artistes to all my requests for drawings of 'pin-cesses'.



I wish to inherit your spunk spunkiness, strength and assertiveness.

I may be 28 today, but I'll always be your hairless little girl.