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Lucy Wangunjiri was barely 15 when her father chased her away, with no where else to go to, she got a job as a domestic worker.

She speaks to us on rebuilding her relationship with her dad and finding her true purpose.

Her life is a collage of the good, the ugly, the mundane and the bad. That does not so much frighten her as it does put a smile on her face.

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“I was born an eagle and not a chicken,” she says, then reiterates countless times.

She was born Lucy Mburu, in Muthigi, Murang’a, into a poor and struggling family.

“Our lives, my siblings and I, were full of challenges and upheavals.

It was not any easier every time our father engaged us in constant battles in the name of reprimanding us. His beatings complicated life further,” she says.

After she was done with her KCSE exams – which she could only sit for while taking shelter at a neighbor’s homestead – Lucy was both weary and stretche