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THE RUDIMENT.
        
            On the Wednesday of 11 November 1998, at Kitale District Hospital, I lay, wrapped in a lesso, beside me, Moses, my twin lay too. Quite but terrified were we of the new, acrid and cold world we'd just been born into. The light, of course, was so piercing that my eyes remained close. I had just been born! Mrs Gladys Naliaka, my mother whose name I came to know four years later lay too. Just like me and little Moses, she too lay tired for having me and Moses living inside her womb for close to 274 days. The labor she had just experienced 20 minutes earlier draw her into deep sleep. Later on we were to have our first taste of her love and care, both of which we required at that  moment of our beginning life.

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