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When Mama fua cleans and offers 'other services'

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Many of us may not understand why the next door bachelor is not keen to settle down despite the number of marriageable ladies in the neighbourhood.

The holy book maintains that a man needs a companion and it may not make sense to us when they prefer to spend their best years with no woman snoring beside them each night.

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