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My mum died of asthma when I was 17. She had severe asthma and could have three to four seizures in a month. Finally, asthma won. It killed her. My senior brother has it too. I’ve seen him struggling for breath on a few occasions and it…

We were both at the university when we fell in love. She was my coursemate and later became a study mate. During our final days in school, we became inseparable. That was when I proposed to her and she said yes. A few months later, we…

He does the worse things to me and I think I need to move on without him. The only reason I keep staying with him is this… We struggled a lot before having a child. It was four years into our marriage before I got pregnant. When finally…

She was just a girl when she came to live with us. Twelve or thirteen years, I think. We were newly married and she was in the second year of junior high school. When we moved into our newly rented two bedroom apartment, my wife thought it…

They say “You can’t change people, either you accept who they are or start living life without them.” I don’t know who said it but when I got to the point I had to choose between changing him and living without him, I chose the later. It’s…

I was 26 years old when I decided on marriage. She was 25 years and equally matured for the journey. It wasn’t easy convincing my parents that I was a man enough to get married. To them, I was still a boy who had been very lucky to find…

When we were dating, I learned two basic things from my husband; One, he’s not good at telling lies so he rather not talk about the issues that would make him lie. Two, he doesn’t like wearing white briefs. He only wore them to impress me…

Fii was there when I started having issues with Kwame. He was a friend a ran to when things got out of hand between me and Kwame. He always had something to say to calm the storm in my heart. Sometimes when Kwame wasn’t talking to me after…

At a workshop some years ago, I sat beside her and she charmed me with her intelligence and sense of humor. She was the first to raise her hands to give an opinion and every contribution she made was applauded and called smart. She was a…

When you enter Akua’s room, the first thing you see is the photo frame on her wall. It’s a large frame with the inscription, “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” That’s a quote by J.R.R.Tolkien I remember…