CHAPTER SEVEN
Marriage life began, just around this time, Mama, fell ill and was admitted at the Margaret Marquarte Catholic hospital at Kpando.For three weeks she was at the hospital, conditions worsened by the days and doctors just could not diagnose any medical defect Mama was supposed to be suffering.She was an elder in the village Catholic Church and almost everyday the church members visited and prayed with her at the hospital.
Deteriorating as the condition was there had to be decision. Tina Elorm’s elder sister who was then a practicing nurse at Koforidua, Efo, the commercial bank clerk and Elorm, travelled and brought their sick mother to live with Tina at Koforidua.
Weeks passed, months passed and her condition didn’t improve.Elorm and his wife Vic moved from Wireless to Trade fair after having their first son, to occupy a single room chamber and hall apartment, of a big compound house,off the main road and opposite the magnificent International Trade Fair Centre at Labadi.Elorm bought a car which he converted later into a yellow and red taxi cab,for sales generation. Ken began schooling at St. Thomas school. He would drop him off at the school before going to work each morning.
The family attended St. Michael’s Catholic Church at Burma Camp every Sunday.A step at a time, Elorm’s work was progressing; he had his second child,King later in 1992.Alcoholism and smoking were still a vital part of Elorm’s life.Whenever he got a lot of money, he spent some stocking his room divider with alcoholic beverages.At the least provocation, he would beat up his loud wife. King was five and
at Nicolet School. It became persistent, every day he would beat up his wife at the least of provocations,and after picking King up from school,one night, little King,looking all melancholic and frustrated asked his daddy,
“Daddy, please are you going to beat mummy again today?”
This struck Elorm and sent shivers down his system, he vowed at that moment that, “Never again would he lay his hands on a woman to beat her in his life”.His aim of keeping to one woman and being a responsible husband had just re-emerged in his mind.
…and for many years,the family lived happily.Many more childrenwere born,and Elorm’s job,began paying particularly impressive dividends.
THE END!
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