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Dear Mr. Lawyer,
I am taking my parents to court, not because I hate them but because they hate me and are
determined to kill me as well as my little brother and sister who are too small to protest or
know what is happening so I have to stand up for all of us; before we all die.
I need a lawyer who can get us away from my parents to my auntie. Her husband left her
because she could not have any children and according to African custom where I come from,
this gave him an excuse to leave her. I know she has always wanted kids, so maybe she can adopt
us. But the lawyer will tell us all this.
I will explain to the lawyer that though I don't have any money to pay him now I will pay him
one day when I grow up, finish college and start working as a doctor. I want to become a doctor
so that I can help try and find a cure for cancer.
I have always wanted to become a doctor ever since I can remember but it was only last year
when some people came to our school too tell us the dangers of alcohol and drug use that I
decided what kind of a doctor I wanted to be.
He showed us pictures of a man whose leg had been amputated because of smoking as well as a
video of sick dying people in the hospital who were smokers. It was all so horrible and I
wondered why grown-ups who were meant to be clever did this to themselves?
I want to be a doctor who will find the cure for cancer so that the suffering caused by
cigarette smoking stops. Once I find the cure for cancer I will be rich enough to pay the
lawyer because millions and millions of teenagers and adults who should know better will
have got cancer from smoking and will need my cure.
But if I continue staying in my parents house I will catch cancer from inhaling their
cigarette smoke and die before I can grow up and find the cure. I also don't want my little
brother and sister to die so young. My sister wants to be a teacher and my little brother
wants to be the first Kenyan astronaut.
So please Mr. Lawyer please, please you are our only hope of escaping this child abuse, can
you help me take my parents to court?
Yours hopefully,
David Ogot
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