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“A mother must be vigilant. She must be able and willing to wake up ten times during the night to feed her baby. After her intermittent vigil, she must see everything clearly the next morning so that she can notice any changes in her baby. A mother is not permitted to have blurry vision. She must notice if her baby’s wail is too loud or too low. She must know if the child’s temperature has risen or fallen. A mother must not miss any signs.”https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13490756.Ay_ba_mi_Ade_ba_y_

— Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "“A mother must be vigilant. She must be able and willing to wake up ten times during the night to feed her baby. After her intermittent vigil, she must see everything clearly the next morning so that she can notice any changes in her baby. A mother is not permitted to have blurry vision. She must notice if her baby’s wail is too loud or too low. She must know if the child’s temperature has risen or fallen. A mother must not miss any signs.”https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13490756.Ay_ba_mi_Ade_ba_y_" in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (born January 29, 1988) is a Nigerian writerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayobami_Adebayo#cite_note-2.Her 2017 debut novel, Stay With Me, won the 9mobile Prize for Literature and the Prix Les Afriques.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayobami_Adebayo#cite_note-3 She was awarded The Future Awards Africa Prize for Arts and Culture in 2017.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayobami_Adebayo#cite_note-:1-4