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	Born in Britain by Ola Awonubi	they managed to find a woman who was prepared to look after me. She was rather reluctant about it, at first, which Mother said was a little strange - considering she had advertised her services in the paper
My father... sat with me and talked quietly, telling me to listen to little things, like the birdsong in the pine trees and guava tree outside. He wrote an angry postcard ..to the nurse, and taped an Ædes Egyptii mosquito to it. The card with its cargo arrived safely in the post. Later, the nurse would speak of it without understanding, as something bizarre. “Your father sent me a mosquito!”	One Scattered Skeleton by Vahni Capildeo