OH LIFE "I MUST SURVIVE" (EPISODE TWENTY- ONE)

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...Adia fell off the chair on which she sat. It was a shock. She could not understand. She had never thought that her husband knew the blind beggar.

Adia wanted to say something but Amoda waved his hand. “You promised not to ask any question,”

he said then he continued his story.

Jarin and I were married back home. She was a very pretty girl and many men wanted to marry her. Even a very rich and popular chief in our town wanted to marry her. Jarin refused to marry him. She refused to take even a kobo from him.

When the man knew that he had failed and that Jarin was going to marry me, he felt offended. I was not rich. I was just a foreman in a building company in this town. I don’t know why Jarin preferred me to the rich chief.  She simply loved me. I had a few clothes but I dressed well and looked well. It wasn’t only Jarin who wanted to marry me. Many girls in the town wanted to marry them but Jarin was the best of them.

During our marriage the chief sent a man to tell me that Jarin and I would come to a sad end.

He said that if we were not lame that we would be blind. If we were not blind we would become lepers. He said many things would happen to us until we either did or became beggars. Jarin was afraid but I did not believe the man and I was not afraid.

“After the marriage we quickly left home and came here. We settled down and we lived happily. I was well paid and I was able to but Jarin a lot of things. But we did not go home because Jarin feared what the chief might do to us.

“The baby did not come in time. Jarin used to fear that the chief was stopping her from having a baby. If she took ill, she thought it was the chief who brought her illness. I tried to make her forget but she wouldn’t. The fear of the chief grew in her mind.

“I was very glad when she told me she was going to have a baby. I bought her many things and she was happier than before. Then one day she woke up and told me she couldn’t see a thing. I didn’t at first think it was a serious thing. But it turned out to be true. Jarin was totally blind.

“She cried. She blamed it on the chief because he cursed her. I didn’t know how to comfort her, I myself became afraid. I now believed that the chief had done it and it was going to be my turn. I didn’t want to go home. In the first place I was afraid what the chief would do to me. In the second place it would…to be continued on Tuesday.

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