It wasn’t long before Sister Grace was done with her training…she rented a little shop and was getting her own customers. She still lived in the same house with us; she felt it was better to stay and help with the rent instead of getting her own place.
My immediate elder brothers (Twins) started a barbing salon as soon as they were done with secondary school. They did not even bother to take the entrance examination. The suffering/poverty was too much and they just wanted to do something meaningful that would bring money immediately.
They didn’t have to learn the art because they were already doing it even as students, practicing on the boys at their school, and were quite good at it. They just got a shop, furnished it and made it official.
My mum and Sister Grace tried to dissuade them but they had made up their minds. They said they couldn’t afford to put our mum through the stress of sending both of them through school when they could be making money right now and be helping out. The long term plan was to raise money from this and start a business at some point. When she saw that she couldn’t change their minds, Sister Grace helped them raise money to get the things needed for the barbing salon to take off
My sister since then started to tell the remaining three that we would get degrees whether we liked it or not. It was a daily reminder and before leaving for school, she would tell us to repeat the statement “I will ‘go’ to University and get a degree”…it was like a mantra
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