The Rejected Stone
"Ada! Chioma! Onyinye! Chy! Ify! Where have these children gone to?” Shouted Mama Ada as she just returned from market. She has a provision shop at the main market the biggest market in their Local Government Area. Mama Ada is a hard working woman; she lives with her husband Obidike and daughters in Udoani village, a town in Anambra state, in the eastern part of Nigeria." Mama Ada whose maiden name was Ngozi Ede married at an early age of 18. Her father died when she was seven years old leaving her and her younger brother, Ikem, who was five for her poor mother to raise. Ngozi's mother tried as much as she could to train her and younger brother up to secondary school level. Immediately she finished writing her Senior School Certificate Examination, started working as a sales girl, the job she took in order to assist her mother in running the home. It was on her way to work day that she met Obidike. Her marriage with Obidike’ was filled with terrible experiences. It al