More Than Family

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This creative writing piece is set in London, about a guy named Raheem and his trials in meeting his fiancee, Sheri's parents and family in Senegal.The author describes Raheem's fears and anxiety on meeting Sheri's family for the first time, as Raheem was abandoned as a kid by his parents. Everything went well in the beginning but then there's a twist of fate and the wedding is nearly called off because of something that happened twenty years ago. In the end love triumphs and Raheem gets to marry Sheri.

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"Dusk barely broke. Raheem smoked the last cigarette in his pack and did not care about where the next one would come from. He was going to Dakar tomorrow to meet Sheri's parents. Nothing else mattered now. Sheri still slept. She always slept well. Raheem did not; ever since he was a little boy his sleep was restless and full of dreams. Usually the dreams meant nothing but sometimes the same people would appear. He imagined that the man and woman in them were his parents but not having ever met them Raheem could only hope that they chose his nighttime visions to say hello. The people in his dreams looked nothing like the people in the photo he carried in his wallet."

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