Day: December 1, 2024
Christmas Dating episode 20
CHRISTMAS DATING Final Episode . . . It has been a sweet adventure telling you about Jojo and myself. I’ve told you about the sweet moments: when all was fine and rosy. I’ve told you about the stormy moments: when the forces of nature came blowing on the roots of our journey into unfading love. […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 19 . . . Love is like a four-wheeler vehicle carrying you on a road trip to a place of calm, peace and comfort. You sit in the back seat, stick your head out of the window, and feel the gentle breeze travelling in the opposite direction as your driver ferries away. […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 18 . . . Pregnancy! Hmm! I had always heard different versions of what pregnancy does to a woman. I, personally had been an eyewitness of what pregnancy could turn a woman into. Mine? I couldn’t explain it. I pushed Jojo to the extreme. My tommy weighed so much that I almost […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 17 . . . I was moved to tears as I listened to him tell the story. My heart was heavy and aching. He looked so innocent and helpless. Jojo’s uncle was a handsome man who had been through so much in life. To be blind and paralyzed at the same time […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 16 . . . “Hey, Sugar!” His baby-boy voice oozed over the phone when I had picked. “Hi, big guy. . .” I pretended to be dull and lonely. “Your voice, it sounds retarded. Did you go to the doctor?” He was worried. “Yeah. I did.” I was still pretentious. “So what […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 15 . . . After Jojo stirred his way up above the ocean of death, we were in our matrimonial home again. His lungs kept healing miraculously, and very fast, too. My Shakespeare was home with me. It was just the two of us, all by ourselves in a big world full […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 14 . . . Love teaches you to be patient, to be kind, to care for those who stay close to your heart, to extend a helping hand to those who need your help. Love is like a fine, red wine; it intoxicates. It is like the early morning sun, the one […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 13 . . . Something happened. It taught me to never give up so quickly. You know, death has no mercy. It doesn’t understand the language of humanity. Oh, and it doesn’t even care in the first place; whether you’ve just found true love and would not want to lose it, or […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 12 . . . It is difficult to keep faith alive when the one you truly love is dying. Hope seems so bleak when love stings you sharply. And to know that you’ll walk down the aisle with a man who is very close to his last day on earth is a […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 11 . . . Life is like the bright ray of the sun. It hides under the clouds when the rain comes. It is like the round grey moon. It comes when you least expect it and goes when you’re about to enjoy its fullest. I knew that Jojo had all of […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 10 . . . I brought up the subject about Linda again, a week or two before Jojo and I left for Amsterdam. There was no wavering in his voice when he explained himself. That was how I knew when one was being truthful. Linda had ran back to him begging him […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 9 . . . “What’s the matter, Jojo?” I asked as he walked into the sitting room. “Nothing serious, Sugar. Just tired.” His reply didn’t sound assuring to me. “You’re just tired?” I reached for his briefcase, collected it and made him turn around to strip his jacket off his body. “My […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 8 . . . He was sitting on the sofa. His eyes were fixated on the TV. It was a football match between two English teams in the English Premier League. It made him feel at home. He picked one popcorn after the other from a bowl in front of him. He […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 7 . . . Music is sweet to the ears. It is scintillating sometimes. But the sweetness depends on the musician and his instrumentation. Sweet Jojo was my musician by every standards. His way of loving and caring for his woman was his instrument. And it gave every sweet vibe that one […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 6 . . . I cried a million tears. I cried so much those first three nights that one would have thought I was bereaved. To feel lonely once again was painful. Solitude was written all over my life. Jojo’s eyes were starring at me when I woke up that morning. No, […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 5 . . . I prayed for it not to happen. I cried many nights, on my knees, begging God to keep this one sweet thing, begging that this sweetness lasts me a long time, forever. But Jojo changed. My Sweet Jojo changed. He stopped calling me Sugar. He stopped playing around […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 4 . . . I began to have a migraine one afternoon while at work. It was so horrible that I thought my brain would burst open. I took it to be as a result of stress and physical exertions at work. It was a Tuesday. Before I knew what was happening […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 3 . . . When I say that my Jojo was a sweet guy I’m not being hyperbolic. He was sweet inside out. The way he approached issues, the way he kept his cool when I made him angry, the way he corrected me when I was wrong. Sweet through and through. […]
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CHRISTMAS DATING Episode two . . . Jojo liked playing with my hair. I was very certain there was something about my hair that he found interesting. Or, he was just that kind of man — the one who seized every opportunity he got to play with his woman’s hair — and it was romantic. […]
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Christmas Dating
CHRISTMAS DATING Episode 1 . . . My phone rang, I took the call, and Christmas that year became the womb of a new experience for me. Jojo was his name. Joseph, actually. I gave him the nickname Jojo because he was a sweet and romantic guy. We first met earlier that same year. I […]
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