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I Was Too Tall for Her Asoebi, Apparently!
I spent my teenage years wishing I were shorter because of how people treated me. Today, my height is one of the things I love most about myself.
Growing up, I was a very tall girl. I wouldn't say I was the tallest person around, but in my class, I was among the tallest girls, even though I was one of the youngest by age.
People never allowed me to forget my height. Even my teachers made comments about it. Sometimes, they would say things like, "You are taller than everybody in this class. Sometimes, you even look older than your classmates."
I heard these comments so often that I gradually became conscious of my height. But one particular incident made me question it even more.
When I was in JSS3, around thirteen years old, something happened that I still remember.
I had a distant cousin who was also my classmate. We lived in the same village, attended the same school and were quite close. We were among a group of about five or six girls who usually walked home together after school.
Her elder sister was preparing for her wedding, and my cousin was asked to select some of her friends who would wear the wedding asoebi.
