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Money Maker

  3 AM!!! 3AM!!? 3 AM in the morning? That when that sweet snooze starts and one goes limp from some deep sleep. You don’t want to move. WHO WAKES YOU UP AT 3 AM IN THE MORNING? It could only be Tony. Here he was. Drunk, rugged and roughed up. Worse still he had come with a taxi all the way? Guess who had to pay? 1,500 shillings for the trip, then another 2,000 shillings to his home. Thank you God there was some money in the house. Worse still he ate all my food from the fridge. He had gone to university, completed. He had done some work. He got work before me and I graduated before him. He was doing alright for himself, paying rent, buying his food, enjoying life and leaving me alone. I don’t know what happened, but I have a feeling he thought there was money, so he didn’t need to work. He started acting like a mad man, jumping over cars, shouting at people just two feet away from him, screaming, rolling around in the dirt, waking people up at 3 am to pay his taxi fare and steal t