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in the 16-page letter Mr Bello writes to his daughter, the first page which is for the first year of her life narrates the joy he experiences at her birth and how he learns he has to take life more seriously and live up to the task of being responsible for another human being. See page 9

Mr Bello counsels Aliya about sex and other things like vulgarity, bad language and violence. He advises that these things are filth which will corrupt her mind which is like a beautiful room, thus, she should be careful not to let them. See page 15

Aliya's father gives her a greeting card on her birthdays but on her 16th birthday, he gives her a card, a digital camera and a 16-page letter, detailing the 16 years of her life, one page for each day. See page 9

Though Aliya is a brilliant student, she has a low grade in chemistry because she cant answer the questions and do all the practical test fast enough during exams. See page 3

Bobo is the first guy to tell Aliya he likes her. His real name is Tokunbo Alabi See page 4

Bobo declares his love for Aliya and also accompanies this with a gift. Aliya tells her dad about this and he tells her that the gift doesn't mean he truly likes her. He also tells her that gifts intend to make persons feel indebted but she shouldn't feel that way because no relationship based on material things can overcome the test of time. See Page 5-6

Aliya's father is of the opinion that the kind of girls that most boys like are dump girls. He says "a dump girl is the one who thinks she needs to have sex with a boy to prove that she loves him or who thinks that having sex and generally misbehaving is the way to show that she is grown-up, a girl who is not smart enough to know when she is being manipulated or exploited.

Before Aliya enters SS1, she wants to be a pilot, then a musician, a songwriter, a fashion designer, a doctor and now a lawyer. See page 18-19

Aliya wants to be a doctor because she wants to help children who suffer asthma just as she does, but she changes her mind after she notices that she hates the sight of blood. Then she starts reading John Grisham's books [law books] and she gets inspired to study law. See Page 19

The Gandhi test means that if one is doing something and does not mind other people knowing about it, then it's likely that what one is doing is good but, if one is doing something and one will not want other people to know about it then it's most likely what one is doing is bad. See page 27

Aliya's mother comes from a comfortable family of the middle class while her father comes from a poor background. When he was younger, he had to hawk on the streets with his sisters in order to assist his parents in making ends meet. See page 27

Gandhi is a great Indian leader and a thinker but he doesn't want political power for himself. See page 26- 28

Some of the acronyms used in the book are HAK [Hugs and Kisses]; KOTL [Kiss On The Lips]; OMG [Oh My God] and KPC [Keep Parents Clueless] See page 31

Rebecca in the book is stereotypical because she has a wrong idea about Muslims that they are all killers See page 41

After a shipwreck, a slave who has been ill-treated by the slave masters while he is aboard the ship woke up on an island and found one of his torturers with him. The slave master was badly wounded and unconscious but instead, at taking revenge by killing him or deserting him, he nursed the slave master back to health. See page 44