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Friday, July 15, 2011

Sugabelly's Language Challenge


My name is Seyi Falufosi. I was born on 17th April (I actually said the fourth month,) 1985. But was this really when I was born? Yes, I was born on Wednesday, 17th of April 1985. And I was named on the eighth day of my birth, that would be... the twenty... 24th of April, 1985. My father named me Seyi, Oluwaloseeyifunmi (It's the Lord that has done this for me) Titiniayomi (My joy is everlasting.) I was also named Sarah. Because my father's mother died about a year and three months before I was born and because I was the first female child born into our extended family since her passing, my father's family named Iyabo (mother has returned!) Is there still anyone alive that calls me by that name at all? Most of them are dead... but looks like there are still about two left... (pause...
Alright, let's

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