Story By Eyob Samuel
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Eyob Samuel

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The Mayor’s Daughter
Updated at Sep 3, 2026, 04:27
I thought the most difficult thing in my life was surviving university while constantly being reminded that I needed to lose weight. I was a second-year Mechanical Engineering student at Dire Dawa University, living an ordinary student life and trying to find the motivation to exercise. Then, one ordinary Wednesday afternoon, everything changed. On my way to the gym, a beautiful and expensive car suddenly stopped directly in front of me. A young woman stepped out. I had never seen her before, yet she looked at me as though I were the person she had been searching for all her life. Without saying a word, she hugged me, kissed my cheek, and held my hands tightly. I was completely confused. Was this some kind of prank? Had she mistaken me for someone else? Why did she look at me with so much love and pain? For more than ten minutes, she refused to let go of me. Her eyes seemed to tell a story I couldn't understand. Then, just when I decided to leave, she finally spoke through her tears. “Don’t leave me. I have no one.” Those words changed everything. I had no idea who she was, why she knew me, or what secret connected us. But from that moment on, my ordinary university life would never be ordinary again.
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