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Childhood Chronicles: Confessing to an Uncommitted Crime

Have you ever admitted to a crime you didn't commit? Well, I have and I'm about to take you down a melodramatic lane, stay with me🙃. This happened around 2008/2009, I was in Nursery 2 and I remember this because I could picture my primary school right now and see the position of my class. Nursery School Graduation🙈🙈 There was this boy whose name I can't recall who gave me a five naira note. I tried to give it back but he just wanted me to have it by all means. "Sweet boy", you might think but don't be so fast😂.  I could not throw the money away, so I kept the money with me.  Before we go home, we sometimes stay with someone you can refer to as a "big mummy" and wait for our parents to come pick us up. She sold bread and groundnut, and I thought I should spend my five naira on groundnut ( I know, there was really a phase where groundnut was five naira🤧). Anyway, guess what? There was no groundnut and I could not spend my five naira.   My mum came...