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Subject: This time last week were were enroute to the US from Nigeria.
Time: 4:47:00 PM CST
Author: viviansullinwank
I had always planned to get back to my journal about my visits to Nigeria but I never did. I was going to pick up where we took Ikenna to Nigeria when he was 9 months old in 1993. That trip happened because while I was pregnant with Ikenna Levi's father died (Nov 1991) and my mother died (Jan 1992). My father had died many years earlier...so Ikenna had only one surviving grandparent. Levi's mother was aging and we wanted her to get to see Ikenna. Levi and I had been married for 11 years before Ikenna was born. His mother asked us many times when we were going to start a family. Levi was her baby and she was anxious for him to start his family.
I had no idea then that it would be 14 years before my next visit....that I would be divorced and Levi would be dead when I went back. Many changes took place in the village.....electrity finally came to the entire village....cell phones have exploded in Nigeria.....lost of new construction in the village. Funny how things seem to have improved in the village but they seem to have drastically worsened in Lagos....
I hadn't been out of the country at all in 14 years. I was even surprised to see how much the visas have changed. The last time I went you just had a stamp in your passport. Now the visas are actually pretty and laminated into your passport. Please click on the graphic of our visas below and I'll 'transport' you to my Nigeria journal for the entry.
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More interesting stuff. I am so glad you and Ikenna had the opportunity to return to Nigeria. Margo
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Another wonderful entry! Tammy
1/11/07 3:48 AM
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