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I was reading an article on the effects of smoking and taking in harmful
substances and I can only be grateful to God I don't have any of those.

I was an extremely intelligent girl in school, my teachers and family
would say I was a gifted child. The sky wasn't even my stepping stone at
the rate my brain functioned.

At the time I wrote National Common Entrance I was number three in the
whole nation and my parents actually expected more because they knew
what God had bestowed upon me.
When I got into secondary school, I was still doing well but I had
become a 'gucci girl'( a clique in school)
We were among the funky/cool/popular ones. In most sets, there's always
that clique.
We hung out together, partied a lot and became very unserious with my
academics.

By the time I was leaving school with all my truancy and misbehavior I
nicely got 4Ps and 4Fs. That could never get me into any institution.
Before then, I went for the holidays in Kano to stay with my older
sister and so when I heard my result was out, I bluntly refused to return to lagos
because I knew my oldest sister who had slaved to send me through school
will reset my brain with a few strokes of the cane.

So somehow I read and wrote my exams again and passed. Then I mixed with
a few friends. I got curious about cigarette smoking and then I became
worse than the people I learnt from. I have always been a happy
person, so partying was inevitable. I got into drinking as well, and
then heavy drinking. I stopped going to class mainly because I was
either tired from partying hard all night or hung over from excessive
alcohol. Inevitably I dropped out of the first university. I remember a
time where I woke up in the morning on the street with the sun shinning
so bright over my head. I somehow gathered myself and went to another
university where I finally managed to graduate... http://biempowerment.com/2016/04/21/journey-far-ex-addict-tega-omugor-tells-story/