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Episode 3 I’m not going to reiterate what the pastor said, suffice it to say that it was the usual sermon on faith, love hope and prosperity. The pastor preached with enthusiasm and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that he made sense. He didn’t have any manifestation whatsoever so I was all the more relaxed. Nina dutifully took down notes in a jotter and opened to every Bible verse quoted by the pastor. I tried to concentrate as much as I could on the service although I found myself stealing glances and exchanging smiles and giggles with Nina at every opportunity. The pastor reached a crucial point in his preaching and asked those people with various ailments to come forward. Soon the alter was filled with all sorts of people, those with genuine sicknesses and those who came just to fulfil all righteousness. We all joined in prayer, led of course by the pastor. We had been praying like this for a few minutes when I heard a scream. My eyes had been closed so I ...

Episode 1 The first time I saw Nina she came for a job interview at the firm I worked in. I was walking down the corridor on the second floor, carrying some important documents for my boss, when I came across the new applicants. I couldn’t help but LOOK at them seated as I passed. There were many who had the images of important personalities hovering above their heads; these were the fellas with ‘connections’. A few had the blue flames of pure academics lighting up their auras. Some of them were spiritually drenched in alcohol, but most of them dressed in false hope. They had come for this interview but had already convinced themselves that they wouldn’t get the job because they didn’t have connections. In so doing they attracted failure to themselves. This was so because even those who couldn’t see could feel their hopelessness and invariably were repelled by it. I was silently reminiscing on all of this when I saw her. She was bent, head down in her books, trying to...

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