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Creating David Ruwa ep23

knew what boarding meant. At that point, I stopped crying even though I just felt the whole "boarding school" idea was not something to be happy about. My brother and I were to be taken to a boarding school in Kwale. However, after long pleas with my father to withdraw the idea, he said he couldn't, but rather, he would take our sister with us to the same school. Now in 2004, my sister would

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