known to have successfully helped some women seeking conception. Each boasted of his special talent at cracking difficult cases and talked as if he could work miracles. Oyeghe overheard folks talking about these healers, and some talked as if deliberately at her to hear. Some older women proffered their advice on what a young woman should do or where to seek assistance on matters of getting pregnant.
And so Oyeghe went to a masseur highly recommended to her. When she arrived, there was a line of women waiting to be attended to. She discovered that her problem was not unique; there were many women like her who came to seek help to conceive.
Her turn came and she went into the consultation room. The masseur was a bare-chested hairy man who struck her immediately as someone too young for that serious profession of helping married women to conceive. Within minutes, her doubts were confirmed. In the process of examining her body to know that every part of her as a woman was complete or right, he began fondling her breasts beyond the professional limits that she expected a healer to go. Utekpe would have got more intimate with her if she had not shown disapproval at his methods of checking her problems. She had heard stories of masseurs telling their gullible patients that they had to insert some medicines into their womb. They had used unorthodox methods to do this, but the women did not protest. These masseurs had ended up themselves impregnating the women. Such women, happy to be conceived, had kept quiet and had carried some other men's children for their husbands who had been anxious to have children anyway.
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