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If my parents hadn’t divorced…I would not have this house. I still remember the day my mom moved to this house. She was full of regret. I said, “Mummy, why the long face?” “I never thought I would have to buy my own house,” mummy said. All her life the only narrative she knew around home ownership as a woman was this: you marry, you move into a house with your husband, your husband’s house is your house. This single story was so powerful in her mind that even when she accomplished the feat of buying a house of her own, she did not immediately see it as a marker of success. To her at the time, the house was proof that she had failed to stay in her husband’s house. Thankfully, I was around to snap her out of the mindset. What are daughter’s for?🧐 I reminded her of how hard she had worked. Not just to care for me and my cousins but to support our extended family too. How all her life, husband or not, she had always been a pillar to not just family but also friends. “Mummy, do ya, if una no bin divorce ah no go get os na Ghana. Allow me do ya!😁” I moved into my mom’s house in 2020. She retired in 2016 and returned to Sierra Leone in 2023. Since then, I’ve become head of household. This week, I paid to paint the house for the first time. The torch has been passed. My heart swells with pride every time I come outside and look at this house—my mama’s house—the house she never dreamed of because the only house she believed she would have was a husband’s house. A reminder that even if you can’t dream about it, you can still achieve it. Life’s twist and turns can take you to heights beyond your imagination! Good Morning from my mama’s house! What single story have you been told that is stopping you from celebrating your wins?

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