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It's our time to be Barbie dolls

As the real housewives of Komayole, we demand for an exchange programme with our counterparts in Kitusuru and its environs.  What is that thing you live with in your houses again? I heard someone call it Chihuahua. We would like to understand you because we sail in the same ‘housewife’ boat yet it looks like we row the boat and you just sit there and wait for it to dock. Do you want to understand us as well? Oops, I almost forgot that we are demanding and not requesting. So can the ‘Barbie dolls’ just pack their bags…sorry, suitcases as we set the date!

We are meant to understand that the first thing you do when you wake up is run around your ‘state of the art’ homes to keep fit. Seriously, is that the only chance you get to run? Is that the last thing on your mind before you go to bed such that you do it so religiously very early in the morning? If running keeps you fit then we are the fittest! We basically run throughout, even while alighting from matatus because they strictly stop for 30 seconds for both who want to alight or board.

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