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Episode 32

Any suitors that comes to marry a maiden in the village will be well investigated. They will send out men to go and know the village the man came from.

Many maiden became humble after seeing and hearing what happened to Olamma. Which sound so unbelievable, some still wonder if the woman that they see every time, either going or coming from the farm or stream was truly Olamma the most beautiful maiden.

They were shock at the transformation and kept their distance from her. Some of the young men that Olamma used to look down and insult in the past will throw their hands in a mockery laughter anytime they sees her.
Oby was acting nice in the beginning and even asked Olamma what happened to her and she narrated all her story to her but people began to warn Oby to avoid Olamma like a plague before some terrible thing will befall her.
After sometime Oby started avoiding Olamma and even warned her never to mention her name again after Olamma called and greeted her one day at the stream.

Oby was really shock to learn that the prideful and most beautiful Olamma has being reduced to nothing.

But Oby did not join some people in calling her Olanjo (ugly jewel) they changed Olamma (the beautiful Jewel) to Olanjo.

Oby quickly rejected every of her wish to marry an Ozulu man. She began to thank the gods for not making her wish to come true.
She returned back to the suitor she once rejected and he turned her down and said he was no more interested.

Another suitor came, who was from Adaugo’s husband’s village, he was hard working and has many plots of farmland, he came to ask Oby to marry him and she quickly accepted and within a short time she was married.

Different gossip were flying up and down about Olamma.
Some will say she was married to an animal that ate one part of her body and disfigured her face. Others will say she was married to a ghost and they travelled to the spirit world until a great dibia rescued her. While many will conclude that it was the great eze muo (king of the spirit world) that disfigured her face because she was lazy and thought her beauty was everything.

Some people refused to get close to her after hearing different stories about her.
They kept their distance anytime they see her in the stream or the road to the farm.
She was ridiculed and mocked and her parents were not left out in the mockery.
Olamma’s mother was seen fighting in the market place after some women insulted her for not training her daughter well and turning her into slave because she was no more beautiful.


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