You have left me the best comment ever. Yes, some places in Nigeria still allow polygamy. In fact traditionally, there is no limit placed on how many wives a man can take. Fortunately, most people from around my part of the country are Christians and as such you would seldom encounter a polygamous family these days around those parts.

To Ijeh, there was no gamble. She had her eyes set on Jim for the longest time and she was fulfilled just to be near him. It was Jim who took the gamble and that was probably because he could not afford to take the wife by himself because he was poor and getting older too. She was young and had experienced the very worst of human beings so he figured, how bad could it get. Luckily for him it turned out way better than he had expected and it became a landmark event in his otherwise uneventful life.

I didn't set out to write a fairy tale. It is just the way it turned out to be.

You're appreciated.