Pāhonoa te oro

Online, thousands of people admired her glamorous lifestyle. But now, as she stood alone under a flickering streetlight, shaking and crying, one question filled her mind. “How did my life get here?” Because Lilian was not always this person. Just two years earlier, she had been a quiet, innocent village girl who believed life in Lagos would solve all her problems. Lilian grew up in a small rural village where life moved slowly and money was scarce.