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THE CEMETERY

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I believe the cemetery will turn my life around....... I still remember the first time like it just happened yesterday. What i usually watch in movies was happing right before me and I couldn't explain it. It wasn't Mercy Johnson or Yul Edochie. It was someone so dear to me. He was beautifully dressed in one of his best suits. I admire him a lot. He was in a deep sleep, yet didn't seem bothered with the noises coming from all angles. He was so comfortable. That was my dad lying in his coffin. It was my first time seeing a corpse. I never knew what it means to be dead. An elderly woman moved close to me and said: "you are never going to see him again". That was strange and very hard to believe. I couldn't control the tears. I always see Mercy Johnson in different movies even after lying in a coffin, so why would my dad's own be different, I asked myself. He told us he was only going to be away for some time and return back home. He had some ong