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She Never Listened

She Never Listened. She used to live here once but later took off to the streets due to her ignorant youth and thinking, that she could beat the wisdom of the streets with her shallow knowledge of the countryside. But who's at loss now? She nowdays roams along the same streets, the wild streets she thought she could tame with her stunning beauty and entertained. She thought their smiles were genuine ones and their advances just as same but Lo! she turns her head on the lookout only to meet the same smiley chaps then, who looked like clowns, wearing stern looking faces their smiles faded not even with the faintest trace as if to indirectly tell her, "You no longer fit in our clique.Give us a breather for once." She heard but never heeded to the words of them who knew the tricky ways of the city, Suli said, hearing and not listening does no benefit to your system and there's a swahili saying that says 'Mtoto akililia wembe mpe'

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Date: 4/30/2014 3:07:00 AM
Kweli kabisa. The city might smile, but it might also do worse.
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