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Love found, but lost, again

(Deviant Art Website) I don’t think there would have been anyway I would have gotten her. At first I thought she was out of my league, but as I got to know her better, I realized we were meant to be. The first day I saw her was in class. It was the first day of the semester. I saw her come in, but was unable to see her face clearly. She sat right behind me, so close I saw her shoes from the corner of my eye. I loved her hairstyle (I love ladies with afros) and her shoes were kind of cute (Of course I was not concentrating on the shoes alone). Her perfume was out of this world. I could have smelt it for the rest of my life. I was ‘thirsty’ and I am not ashamed to admit it. It took a while to get to know each other (thank you Lord for group work), but the more I saw her the more ‘thirsty’ I became. What made it worse was that we were compatible according to me. I thought she would treat me like a peasant, but she was kind and warm and she made it worse by smiling. I was stil

A second Chance

(Loan Informer website) My cousin once told me that one day as he was travelling back home, he saw a shirt on a man in a ditch. The shirt looked familiar, so he asked to be dropped off. He went to check whether he knew the person. It was our uncle (not his father). He was dead drunk and was swimming in the slime and filth of a Nairobi sewage ditch. He picked him up, placed him on a motorcycle and took him home at his own expense. He made sure he was in his bed and then locked the door and went to his house. It was not the only incident where my uncle was brought home drunk. He was known around for his drinking sprees. For as little as 10 shillings he was drunk by midday. He used to borrow everyone money, including me. When he was unable to get money he would work for it, and then go drink it all. The problem was that he was married, twice. His first wife left him, and so did the second. He has four or is it five children. One of them is brain damaged. She is my age mat