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Udo and Nnamdi have a perfect relationship. They are respected and regarded as a Black power couple in the impenetrable London business scene. They are the poster couple for successful Black African immigrants and have been ranked in the top 10 of the most influential Black people in Britain for the fifth year in a row.

This is a fictional story centered on the life of an innocent brown-colored girl growing up in a "normal" African family, who was discovered without permission. Cici is a girl just like any other, but has a tough time navigating through life to discover her true worth. She learned from a young age to trade her body for what she wanted so desperately - love!

1960 - Black, African, female, and a student at Cambridge. Who would have thought it? As Mama often said, her only reason for sending me to school was because she wanted someone to read her letters to her. December 1960 - Raped, broken, and all alone in a foreign land, the system became my family. I have had my baby and given up my child to the care system. It’s been more than four decades since Cambridge, my life couldn’t be better. In one moment, my peace is shattered, and secrets are revealed. As they say, "the time of reckoning has come".

This is a short story of a young woman driving south in the time of the Korean War. Loosely told, it is fiction based on the history of Monteverde, Costa Rica.