Hey, thanks for tuning in to you had me at Black. I'm Martina Abrahams.

This week's story comes from Mimo. One day, Mimo's boss tried to stomp on her dreams

for a reason that will make your blood boil. Here's what happened.

I want you to breathe all this in.

And I got...

What? So my grandma's name is Warkenage, which means you are golden and I guess the story begins with

the story begins with having multiple uncles and uncles that lived at her home in Ethiopia.

And one day, one of my aunties was like, oh, you grandpa that's not my dad and I was like what

do you mean and at that time I was about six or seven years old and I was thinking like that

is so weird why isn't it my grandpa your dad?

That doesn't make sense to me.

And so I ended up asking my mom, why is my auntie's dad different

than your dad?

Like, what does that mean?

And then that's when my mom revealed to me

that my grandma used to go to the villages

and she will find these folks that are, you know, living in a very bad

conditions and brings them to the capital city, which is at this Ababa, which is

where I was born and raised, and she will provide them

home, she will provide them schooling opportunity, work, everything that does she can

provide for them so that they will be better off you

know eventually and when my mom told me that I was like that is so beautiful you

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