Juliet's Magazine

December 28th, 1973
Bea’s maternity home, Tema. There sat my twenty-one-year-old unmarried mother, Josephine Ewurama Sackey, on her hospital bed, looking at me, her newborn baby, lovingly. She was awed by my beauty, with my head full of black curly hair, my very beautiful face, and my small lips. How proud she had been when her friends came around that afternoon, oohing and aahing, as they gushed over me, saying to her that I was no ordinary baby. What a loss it would have been …