African Sports Monthly Feb, 2015 | Page 13

Blessing: Well, my husband is not planning on moving to the states with me because he has his own business to take care of and the only reason we applied for a visiting visa was for our honeymoon and for us to spend few weeks of our marriage together while I resume training. LA is considered my place of work and , my husband coming to visit me will be much easier for me instead of me traveling back and forth to see him. The whole situation has not really affected me yet and I hope it doesn't because distance is not something any marriage needs.

After your wedding you returned back to Los Angeles, California to resume your training with famed sprint guru John Smith but without your husband Igho. This was because the US embassy in Nigeria denied him a Visa, it is almost unbelievable for that to have happened because the US puts such a p;remium on family values and for them to have turned down a young bride’s husband from traveling and moving in with her to work with and support her is almost heartless, how has that affected you and your husband?

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