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Where you went to school no longer matters

Trust humans to latch onto anything that makes them feel better than the rest. Unlike misery, which finds comfort in sharing predicaments; vanity revels in being seen to be doing much better.

That is how adults have been shouting themselves hoarse at every opportunity, trying to prove that theirs was the better or cooler secondary school. That those who were not in Maseno School or Alliance or Lenana or the other so-called blue chip schools, with them are lesser humans. Oh please!

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