All it took was one or two careless teenage girls giving the vermin a taste of their snacks and they became the most well-fed animals imaginable I’ve written a fair amount about my boarding school years in Nigeria in the 90s, but never about the rats that accompanied my school experience.
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October 27, 2026 at 7:00 AM
The pest I’ll never forget: the rats stood six or seven deep on the lawn beside my dormitory
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