MY MOTHER AND STRANGER

My mother received a call from a stranger many years ago. This stranger told her to go get her brother who lived in another town. The stranger told her that my uncle had been sick for some time & his wife wasn’t treating him well. She wud beat him when he soiled himself…& she wud leave him alone at home for days without food & the neighbours got concerned that they decided to look for his relatives. Someone remembered that he had a sister in lusaka and they managed to find my mother’s number. My mom travelled to go get her brother & found him alone, his wife had travelled with the kids to go attend a family wedding in another town. My mom got her brother & brought him to Lusaka. He was immediately admitted in hospital where he stayed for 2weeks with severe TB & was later discharged. My mom wud spend hours before bed chatting with her brother who was bed ridden & I wud join them as I enjoyed listening to them reminisce about their childhood. One night they had their usual chats & I joined them. They were discussing something else, but all of a sudden my uncle became quiet & then from nowhere he said, “I regret leaving my first wife, she was good to me but I neglected her so much…i chased her with my appetite for women. & When she left with the kids, I thought it was a chance for me to marry someone better but looking back, I wish I had been good to her.” 🌿🪻🌿🪻🌿🪻🌿🪻🌿🪻🌿🪻🌿🪻🌿🪻🌿🪻 We left my uncle’s room at 21hrs. My mom went to check on him before she went to bed around 22, she walked in & the look on his face scared her. She called out his name, but he didn’t answer. he just shook his heard & closed his eyes. That’s how he died. I just heard my mom scream & we all ran to the spare bedroom. That was my first time seeing a dead body. During his funeral, both his ex wife & his then current wife came. My mom cudnt hold herself, she told the second wife off. 🌿😔🌿😔🌿😔🌿😔🌿😔🌿😔🌿😔🌿😔