Adebola Oyeku, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/adebola-oyeku/ A Home for Black Women Writers Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:07:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Adebola Oyeku, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/adebola-oyeku/ 32 32 153713158 I Used to Love Myself https://www.midnightandindigo.com/i-used-to-love-myself/ Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77164 I don’t remember how old I was when my parents bought the brown metallic closet with the mirror on the front, but its presence in our home goes back as far as my memory of self does. I don’t think I paid too much attention to the mirror on that closet before age six or seven, but thereafter we became quite acquainted. At age seven, we had recently moved to a new residence and the mirrored closet was no longer in the room my sister and I occupied; it was in my brother’s room. When I was bored with television

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