"Who owns the car you came in, where is your car?" Baaba, asked on the Sunday after our birthday.
"It's a birthday gift from Manal's father"
Manal's father, that was mostly what she referred to Abbi as especially to her family, to others she referred to him as Major, My husband, Oga and the likes, never really heard her referring to him by name to others except when she introduces me as Khadijah Yusuf or when she calls him so occasionally.
"Masha Allah, I will call him later to thank him" Baaba said. I climbed onto his laps when Ammi sat at his feet serving his food "Come down Manal, don't you know his legs aches" Ammi scolded.
"No no, leave my wife alone. How are you Hadiza the third?" Hadiza, that was what Baaba called all the family Khadijahs, he insisted that his wife was Hadiza
