I got a hint my mom was dating a young guy my age. A security man in her area told me. He said the guy sneaked in around 11pm and mostly left around 4am. He was worried about the scandal this would cause if it came out because of the integrity of my mom. She’s someone everyone in the community respects very much. Every society she is in, she’s the head.

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I knew if I asked her she would lie so I told the security guy to keep me informed whenever the guy comes in. His call came around 11:30pm. He said the guy had just entered.

I drove from Taifa to Ayi Mensah deep in the night to see things for myself. I first stood behind the window but what shocked me was the scent coming from the room. The scent of weed. “The guy smokes in my mother’s presence?” I asked myself. Then I heard the guy’s voice warning my mom to take it slowly before she faints.

I slapped my forehead in dismay, “Eiish, it’s my mom herself doing the blazing?”

She giggled. She murmured something back to the guy that I didn’t hear. I could imagine her shock if I walked in or the kind of embarrassment that would cause her ego as my mother so I didn’t enter. I went back, thanked the security and drove away.

I called her early the next morning and asked her, “Is your boyfriend gone?” She was like, “Which boyfriend? Why do you like joking like that?”

I told her everything I witnessed that night. I told her why I didn’t enter and why I thought it wasn’t her fault. I said, “If you need companionship that’s fine but obviously not a guy this young. And the smoke, since when? Do you think the community will forgive if they saw you?”

My mom is fifty-six years old. She has been single for nine years. She told me how life had been lonely. She talked about how she yearned for a good companion and said, “No man comes around, even the ones my age. I don’t know what they don’t see in me. This guy you call young came and all of a sudden I feel alive again.”

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I understood her but I wasn’t going to buy the idea of the young guy. We agreed I would help her get a man. She also promised to let the guy go and said when the guy goes, she wouldn’t have access to the weed again because it’s the guy who brings them.

So brothers, my mom needs a man. She’s very beautiful you wouldn’t know she has four children. If your father has lost his wife, he can join the tip of his cloth to my mom’s cloth and journey together.

—Enoch

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