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Hair by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieProperty Transfer Agreement • April 15th, 2015
The mother cried every day. The father had signed the agreement one afternoon after drinking a whole carton of Guinness at the club, after his friend Lugardson proposed a game of cards and wrote out the agreement that said whoever won would take over the other's property and added that it was a joke of course and not at all legal. And so the father signed it and then lost the game. Lugardson took the agreement to court and the judge was Lugardson's crony and he ruled that the father had truly signed away all that he owned. His company. His homes. His cars. He gave the family a week to hand over to Lugardson. The father said, "But it was a joke! The agreement was hastily written on a receipt! It was a joke!" But the judge ignored him. The father fell to the floor and thrashed and wept. Later, he said to the mother, "I thought Lugardson was my friend," and the mother told him to shut up. "Are you stupid? How could he be your friend? He has been waiting for a way to take over your fortune
