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29 YEARS OF PAIN Searching for My Father

  • PublishedSeptember 26, 2011

Born out of wedlock, Carol Nzioka’s long search for her biological father caused her depression and great pain but meeting him was an uncertain step she needed to take to encounter the truth. She told her story to MWAURA MUIGANA

It is in the morning, June 13, 2011. A confident looking woman pulls out a cell phone from her handbag, dials a number and listens keenly as it rings at the other end. The mother of two has wished to contact the person at the other end since nursery school. It was a missing link in her life that had caused her anxiety, stress and stomach ulcers. The past 24 hours had been filled with anxiety and endless questions – what does he look like? How will I know he is the one? What will be his reaction? How do I behave when I meet him? Now she was going to meet him and give her heart the satisfaction it had sought every day of her 29 years of life. Subscribe here for more

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