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162 Eye C hristine. There is a bird with one red eye. When the drums play the bird flies in the air between the casuarina tree and the mango tree.” “Silly child, it is a bat after the bananas.” “Does a bat have one red eye and can he see through walls?” “Come, where did you see this bird, in a story book?” “I saw him in the mirror.” “True word?” says Christine and she crosses herself. “It’s true isn’t it?” “I do not know. Akueke my grandmother says what is done in darkness is seen. The spirits will tell what is shameful in the obi. The fathers came and washed away the spirits. “As I am baptized Christine, I do not have the eye of seeing.” ...

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