The Quote Garden

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**_Story**
THE WOMB RUNS DRY (scene 1)
I was selling my eggs in school for 200k.
At least I wasn’t sleeping with any man or waiting for any man to send me money.

It was my eggs in my ovaries, my property, that I sold monthly.

I was really cashing out, no capping.

Most of my roommates who always admired my dressing and how good I looked kept pressing me to show them the way. And of course, I introduced them to what I was doing.

Who no like better thing, kwanu?

So every month we would march down to the hospital, and have our eggs scooped out from our v@ginas. They joined me and became ballers.

The happiness in life is to rise by lifting others, and I was glad I was doing the same. I told myself I was teaching women how to rise above financial crisis.

But not long after I finished my university day—note, I started selling my eggs since my 100 level days, but in my 500 level, something happened.

One evening, me and my roommates went to an exotic restaurant. As we were eating, my eyes caught a woman carrying a baby. The shock nearly threw me off balance. The child looked exactly like me.

“Babe, see that baby,” I whispered, tugging my roommate’s hand.

She turned, looked carefully, and even gasped. “Omo, this baby resemble you no be small.”

I felt my stomach turn. “How e go be? Abi…?”

She quickly cut me off, laughing to calm my nerves. “Forget that thing abeg. People dey resemble themselves for this life. Don’t think it too much.”

I brushed it aside. At least I wanted to believe her.

Few years down the line, I was out of school and married to a medical doctor, a fine young man who just established his hospital in town. Life was looking sweet until reality set in.

We had been married for over five years. No child.

Those of you that have ulcer and still eat pepper, do you people have problem with long life and prosperity? I say make I ask oo

POPE ASSURES GAZA PARISH OF HIS CLOSENESS AND PRAYERS*
Pope Leo XIV speaks by phone with Father Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, and assures all those who turn to the parish of his concern, closeness, and prayers.
By Salvatore Cernuzio

Pope Leo XIV received an update on the situation at the Holy Family Parish in Gaza during a phone call with the pastor, Fr Gabriel Romanelli, on Tuesday.

Overnight, just an hour before midnight, the Israeli army launched a massive ground offensive, with media in the Gaza Strip reporting 37 attacks in 20 minutes, and a mass flight of the remaining population from the northwestern area of the enclave.

According to the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, Fr. Romanelli told the Holy Father that the parish—which was struck in June by an Israeli raid in which the pastor himself was injured— “continues to assist the approximately 450 people who have taken refuge there and those who turn to them, distributing meals and water and keeping the internal pharmacy open.”

Moreover, “the oratory also continues its activities, serving children and young people and providing assistance to the elderly and sick, despite the escalating conflict.”

Mr. Bruni told reporters that Pope Leo expressed his concern for what is happening in Gaza, “and assured Father Gabriel, and all those who turn to the parish, of his closeness and prayers.”

TODAY'S VERSE. September 17, 2025
"Whoever finds God finds everything.
Whoever loses God loses everything."
St Robert Bellarmine

May angel of God guide our steps today and all the days of our life. Good morning my lovelies