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The very afternoon the rector called my name in the Conference hall as the next person to work in father Wilson's room remains fresh in in my memory like a new name,how Andy and Gozie shook my shoulder roughly in felicitation and how my other friends who were sitting around hailed me like i had won a lottery. I always remember how ambivalent I felt after the announcement,  happy because it was actually one of the few functions everyone wanted in the school. Besides I had just finished working in the pig farm and working in the father's house was a big upgrade.....I mean, who didn't want to work in the father's rooms?,So that they would place crisp 1000 naira notes in your happy palms in the morning on the days you would vacate for mid term breaks and termly holidays , saying "nga ego Moto",even though it was always bigger than the "ego moto", and on the dreaded Saturdays , while other students cut grasses in the scalding and enervating sun, you wou