You don't need to mention anymore bro. Looking in retrospect on those special feelings back in the days in Warri always make me emotional.
When people who are related meet; the chemistry is always different, the only language that speaks is love.
You know, Momma used to tell me that you were brought from home town Iyede-Ame to Ughele to take care of Carol, I mean your niece and my twin sister, 'may her gentle soul rest in peace' . They said you did not only took care of Carol but both of us the two children that were born in the same period back then at Ughele. And looking back in the days in Warri after Ifado had brought us together again immediately after that fateful incidence and the connection later became inexplicable.
Unknowingly, there were sometimes I did had this feeling like OK, let me check on your family today and like seriously; "Hah bros, your bros just arrived from 'escravos' oh and it's like he was on a rough flight; he's sleeping". Your wife once said, immediately I got into your parlour and had seated. And inside my mind I was just like wow! "E com be like say, somebody dey tell me when this man dey enter town oh, abi I don turn a monitoring spirit on this man?" Or is it the Warri night clubbing experiences we did had back in the days ? Or is it when we used to bugled on each others in the newest eateries in town in Warri without even knowing whether you are in town ? Or is it when senior bros suddenly turned himself my driver on countless times when you used to use your brand new Toyota Camry to carry my marketers from office to field and back to office whenever our official vehicle wasn't available.
Sometimes I was just kind of staring at your face and you weren't really noticing that or maybe you used to think I was kind of studying you, but no, I was just being marveled at you in a kind. So, is this is the man that momma used to tell me that took care of Carol and I back then when we were little babies at Ughele? And the question that was always followed in my mind was does he still recognized that same little baby he used to carry ? Or could it be so long a time a memory for him to remember ?
I remembered the day when you and I met with most senior bros Izrel, momma first son at that drinking joint in centre of Enerhen, and I introduced you to him as Odubu last son, he just hala ur name "oh 'Bobo', you'r such a big boy now". And in my mind I was like "even this old man who never lived with us when growing up even know this guy too, wow, so all the family members know him". Even you too seemed not to know him but himself seemed probably to have heard about you. I remembered your joking words to me thereafter; " so na this old man you dey follow dey quarrel in this Warri ? Na wow for you Agidife !" You know, the memory just goes on.
It's just as the saying goes; "in life we all have different paths and these paths we all meet them in one way or the other and sometimes they hunt us down or they upgrade us up. It's a great World with great feelings and with different experiences.
Hey less I forget senior bros and pardon me to go a little bit further on this your interesting expository !
I was also told that it was baby Yole, Jute only daughter that took you to that Warri where you are now a big man today. Maybe it was your destiny to carry babies when you were young or maybe you were a specialist in carrying babies. 'Haha haha being funny though'.
However, it was with a heart filled with stone's burden and with intense sadness I received the sad news of the untimely passing away of my twin sister Carol your niece and one of your first baby.
You know, I will always missed her signatory of our greetings whenever I visit home. Once she sight me she always find away to come from my behind and tied my two eyes closed and without guessing "I will just say who else apart from my twin sister Carol" and after enough tying of ourselves at this our grown up age with enough pleasantries, asked after her children and then we rolled in town. She was a great spirited woman with warm love, great affection for people and kind hearted person like her mom and those of us that remained alive will always missed her warm spiritedness and her lovely affection.
I chose to write this brief piece on you Mr. John Usumero (a.k.a John Money) because I found your story a bit interesting even without seeking your permission to do so; though I have to use my authority as a writer to surprise you with this as this tinny piece had made it to my autobiography to inspire other people of our World who might have found themselves in certain downside of life to continue to live with positive energy and always do away with negative energy in whatever situation or capacity of life they might have found themselves. For who knows whether that singular journey might just be the beginning of a lifetime destiny just as your own case was.
Lastly before I let you go senior bros, I know people called you different name right from the day of your birth till date all according to their own opinion on how they see you and what you represent in their individual life which is very much normal as the case might be. And I do know people at home called you Bobo, Shalama, your friends and closed palls called you 'John Money', some Warri people called you Usumero, Ose, Chaiman while some others called you Mr. John and all my former staff and Enerhen people called you 'My Bros' so also I called your children my children and so may it be till 'time' do us apart as we continued to dwell in the abundant grace and the infinite mercy of the Almighty.
I look forward to building a more positive conversation with you in the upcoming days on how much we can do together to help our people especially in this post COVID-19 era.
Thank you and God bless you.
I am Fame Agidife and I just want to add my voice to voice of wisdom.
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