Letters from Sambisa

6.

Date: 18th February 2017
My love,
Aww I know the valentine feeling, but I guess it's just a matter of time right?. Sambo is with you ! he's really a good friend, you two have been together for as long as I can remember I wish I had a friend like that.
My Dad had a serious stroke last week and was unconscious for three days, when he woke he called me as if he had an epiphany and started talking.
He advised me on life, the pains and beauty that comes with it. He told me how I had always made him happy even though I felt I had no major achievement in life. He told me that having me and Maryam with Mama was the best thing that had ever happened it him as he placed his hand on mine, I could feel it turning cold.
He told me not to follow the life of western feminism as it was the first trick the devil used on Adam. He asked me to always pray and believe in that one God. Your Lord will grant you the best in this life and the next he said. Just as I rose up from his hospital bed and was about to leave he called my name and said 'Always try to be independent'.
I cried immediately I shut the door behind me...I had mixed feelings because I felt like he was saying goodbye, it felt like his time was almost up but I was proud that he saw me as a shining jewel. I am not the most beautiful of girls but I'm glad I light up his world. You and him are the best men I have ever known.
Everyday I pray to someday be your wife and then maybe have a kid or two. How are your parents? I met your mother at Dalema the other day but I was too shy to say Hi.

Yours
Fatima

P.S. Sambo would definitely hear this when both of you come back!