Phew! When a girl is all yours

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You arrive at Carol’s home an hour late, and her relatives cause a kerfuffle. You have to pay some fine, Sh10,000 at the gate to be allowed in. The man manning the gate says it playfully, but you can tell he means business.

“It is wrong to keep your in-laws waiting,” he says with a glee that you so much dislike. Once inside, you are confronted with greening women, presumably her aunts. You hate them instantly. Of course you have heard that dowry negotiations are not for the faint-hearted. But nothing prepares you to the melodrama that surrounds these negotiations.