Growing up in Busia, Linet always believed she was part of a loving blended family. Her mother remarried when she was still young, and Linet grew up thinking the man she called “Dad” was her real father. For years, she never questioned anything—she went to school like the others, worked on the farm with her stepbrothers, and shared the same home without ever imagining that a day would come when she would be treated like a stranger.
That day came when their father became sick and talk of dividing his estate began. Suddenly, the warmth in the home turned into coldness. Her stepbrothers started avoiding her, whispering behind her back, and giving her strange looks—something she had never experienced before.
One evening, as they sat in the compound discussing the future of their father’s land in Nambale, her eldest stepbrother rose in anger, pointed at her, and said the words that shattered her.Get full story.
