Life without FRIENDS
Feb 02, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: KARA O’NEILL, HADLEY MIDDLETON.
‘MY FAMILY IS MY SUPPORT NETWORK’
Faustina Anyanwu, 42, lives in London, with her husband Vernatius and their three daughters, 13, 12 and 10, and their son, two.
Growing up in Nigeria, I had other children as friends to play with in school, but after I’d left the school gates, I wasn’t interested in having them over to my house or anything. Once I’d left school, I didn’t really keep in touch with anyone. I met more people while studying higher education, but the same thing happened after graduation – we never saw each other again.
‘I SEE MY CHILDREN AS FRIENDS’
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