I may not feel, but my poor wife …The wife …yes, my poor female, she never thought she would ever get married. She married while she was still young. When my time came to get married she already had all these four kids. Her husband, may he rest in peace, was working at the tumbler. One night wanting to unbind two cars to get it by turns to dump his helpmate having no idea what he wanted to do, he thought he was straining to push the car in the tumbler and he doesn’t manage. Then with all his force he holds on to a beam and pushed as hard as he could the car. He hears a long scream and when he went to see from where it came, the head of his helpmate was hanging crushed between those two cars. The husband of my wife died leaving four kids behind, and his helpmate went crazy, leaving other two children with no father.
You may observe that if a woman remains widow or divorced the family doesn’t recover, can’t get married again because of the children. For many reasons lovers don’t want other’s children. Well being, I took Marie especially because she had the children. Why did I do this thing? Maybe some thought I did it from madness, maybe from closeness (my parents had land and they told me and my brother they’ll give us the ownership counting the number of children we have), but it wasn’t about any of these. Like any other man I myself had some experiences with some “girls”. One even told me she was pregnant only that she never gave birth. Down the village a young doctor came, that build a home wishing to settle down here. I was his main master for the construction of the house. From talk to talk I told him my suspicion. He made me all my tests and confirmed I’m sterile and I could not have children. I might have liked children till then, but since then, it seemed I was crazy after them. I was following them all the time, buying them sweets, toys, what else, I was becoming one of them. After the sorrow Marie went through with her husband, I did not think twice, I took her when she thought no one else would ask her to be his wife. I took her with no suspicions. I had a happy marriage. In the latest time this boy of mine, Relu, worries me. The boy I told you so many things about till now is 35 years old now and already has three children. They put me in retirement from the mine, I was already encouraging them, and him, a man with many jobs sent into retirement.