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"I don't know. Mom just started calling me that one day, maybe literally the day Dad left to go to Calgary for work. She'd never call me that if he was here." There's a Chi-chi in every Nigerian Igbo family, and I don't know why my mom is trying to turn me into Chi-chi when I already have a cousin who claimed the name.
"It doesn't suit you."
"That's what I'm saying! And she was like, 'Chi-chi, we need to think about getting you a bigger bra.' If you heard how she enunciated 'bra.' And I was like, I mean, I didn't even say nothing. Just ran. How awkward is that?"
Excerpted from Like Home by Louisa Onome. Copyright © 2021 by Louisa Onome. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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