THIS WAS HOW HE WAS BORN... 

On a badly constructed road, on a cold night, heavy and groaning, a teenage girl falls on her back, and some market women turn their heels towards her in panic. She’s pregnant, her water has broken, and the child in her is eager for the world. After much efforts, persuasions, and screams, he comes out through her legs, crying, with threads of blood running down his face. She holds him up to the moon, his howls like echoes in a ghost town, and when she saw that he was a boy, she names him ABIONA—this one was born on the road.

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