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specialist. One look at her and I knew she wasn't going to last the nigh

ly peaceful, but I knew that was only a ruse, for when the pain came, it was like an avalanche. I d

a moment of clarity, smiled

he had recognized me, but a few seconds later,

ld of her and shook her hoping she would wake and tell me '

ly, that ne

how the nurses met me, cradling my wife's lifeless body in my arms. After awhile,

For the next three days, I couldn't eat, neither could I sleep. I drowned myself in vodka and thereafter went about

ed at her. She spoke but I could not hear her. She threatened but I was past caring. The pa

n about Aretha's passing in the first place, but I was too befuddled to ponder on it for long. She brough

ad left me and all I

me out of her sight. I guess she was sc

n. But when I stood in front of the mirror with the shaving stick in my hand, I had thi

I

ered scar right underneath my th

Aretha's burial, at least she tried to. All I did was stare straight ahead into space. I didn't hear a

er the question she a

down at the yawning black hole a few paces in fron

egan to play out sce

into the house when from the corner of my eyes I saw you. A sun kissed goddess with long legs and short kinky Afro hair. My hunger was forgotten momenta

student. I summoned the courage to approach you and begged you to tell me your name. You smiled, that lop

blinding sun and gathered the strength I needed. I felt Aretha's spirit wa

. When I saw you strutting towards me in your peacock yellow wedding dress, defying the norm of wear

had stumbled on a cure, a cure to save the world and rid it once and for all of the debilitating cancer disease. You even went out on a limb for me by giving me your hard-earned savings. Saving

e the devastating report that changed everything. I felt my bodyguards

and sighed because I still

of. If only you had fought hard, baby. If only you had fought and waited for me to actualize

eet hole waiting for us in the ground.

in misery as tea

upposed to stay and give birth to our kids. You were supposed to stay so I could love and cherish you like I had always done, up till

reach you, can't hold you, can't be with you

hands of my bodyguards that held me on either side, I probably would ha

ked up to see several camera men jostling for space. My heart sank.

odyguards standing alert bes

was shocked to see it was already surrounded by paparazzi. I woul

ase follow me." Hugo, the o

e. I understood it was to disguise me, and it did the tri

nd the paparazzi

a sob caught in my throat and

I would never see h

pair took their tu