Story Contest: Olamma the beautiful maiden by @rossnenye

Hello everyone, good evening to you all. Hope you all had a wonderful day today? As kids while growing up, my parents usually tells us stories after dinner. One story I loved so much then was the story of Olamma the beautiful girl.

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The story
Olamma is a well known maiden in the village of Ikenga, she was popular because of her beauty. Her beauty Shones and radiant like the sun. At the tender age of 14 years, suitors were already asking for her hand in marriage but her parents refused because she was still tender.

People loves and showers her with gifts. Any time she goes to the stream to fetch water or goes to fetch firewood she always see someone who assists her in carrying her things home. Because of these, she because proud and turned all her friends to her maid. When she became of marriageable age, suitors from all walks of life came seeking for her hand in marriage but she refused.

She always tell her friends that her dream man is a very handsome and rich man. She says that she wants a man that will treat her like a princess. Any man that comes to seek for her hand in marriage she would mock and insult the person and tell the person to go and make money. This continued and all her friends got married before her.

One day, her maternal grandmother sent for her and adviced her, she told her that there is no way she would see a perfect man that she should select one man from the numerous suitors flooding their house and settle down but she didn't heed to her grandmother's advice.

One day a man named Nduka haven't heard about Olamma and her fantasies decided to teach her a lesson. Nduka was a handsome guy but he was a loafer, at the age of 30, he still depends on his parents for survival. Nduka borrowed clothes, money, the latest car and came to Ikenga kingdom to seek for Olamma's hand in marriage. Merely looking at Nduka, he fits in into Olamma's idea man. Immediately he asked for Olamma's hand in marriage, she accepted.

In her foolishness, she didn't bother to ask for her husband's village, his parents and his work while they were dating. She was enjoying the money being spent on her. After their traditional marriage, Nduka took her to one tattered hut in a far away village and told her that this is their house, Olamma got the shock of her life when Nduka told her that his very poor, he stays in the hut with his parents and that he married her in order to teach her a lesson.
This is the end of my story.

Moral lessons

Pride goes before a fall.

Money is not everything

Love and good character should be the most important attribute to consider in a person before marriage.

Thanks for reading through, I invite @ukpono, @jidenna and @abija to participate in this contest.

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@goodybest