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Thursday 8:30 p.m., 23rd July, 2015: I am practically tip toeing outside the house, only to realize my family migrated to Mombasa for the Obama weekend. Yes, I was unaware because my phone died in the morning on my way to work and I did not get chance to recharge it. I open my handbag and toss all its contents in it on the pavement, out comes my old phone. I am tensed up as I remove the sim card in the current phone and place in the old one pace across the front lawn as I make the call. “Niko nje ya nyumba, mko?”(I’m outside the house, where are you guys?) “Mombasa! Okay kifunguo iko wapi?”(Where are the keys?) Okay sawa.
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