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Sinta gives Masikonde nod to marry a second wife, sights ‘authentic’ Terian for the first time
Shifting in the driver’s seat, he studied the new arrival. She was tall; he guessed five feet, maybe nine inches. She bordered between slim and skinny. Even scrawny, if he could be brutally honest. Her long neck stuck out of her tee shirt; a less graceful person would have looked stoopy with that neck.She walked in carrying two clear buckets on each of her slender arms, and a tattered rucksack of indefinite colour strapped on her back. She placed the buckets near her feet. He could clearly see githeri in one, and ugali in the other. He smiled as he watched her lift off both lids with both hands, then take a step back to avoid the uprush of steam. He watched the men line up in front of her, rubbing their hands together in anticipation, their eyes on the buckets.
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