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By Majimaji
‘Hallo… I love you and want to marry you!’ Anthony Owino’s pick up line would result to an instant marriage! Owino would then live with his wife for nine years without having a child. Two babies later, she passed on.
It was love at first sight for Antony and Mary Atieno, a woman he saw sitting on a pavement in Mombasa. He found out where she lived with the brother and sent for her. Anthony says he lived in a small ghetto house that had a bed and box as mattress. To his surprise the lady accepted him, travelled to inform her parents in upcountry Siaya County that she had found her husband. He married her in 1996 at the age of 25 years. He however had to wait till he was 36 to have a child, something most men would not.
Just Got Married
They would after 3 weeks start life together as a married couple. Anthony then was earning Kshs. 1500 per month. Out of frustration, he quit his job to both start a mandazi business. He narrates how they would eat mandazi and water for supper in case they did not make enough to buy maize floor and vegetables (Ugali na Mboga).
3 years in marriage, they still had no child. Although he was hopeful, prayerful and not showing any signs of frustration, it was not easy for the wife who was now getting concerns. She would sleep with a teddy bear and always bought on sight any doll or bear she came across placing them on the bed and seat. She would invite neighbour’s children to cook for them only to be taken late at night. Out of frustration, she was advised to try witch craft as a solution a story she shared with Anthony. Having met God and now a saved man, he told her off and encouraged get to be safe and wait for God’s time.
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Finally Babies and mother’s death
They were to get a child at the 9th year of their marriage, a son. Six years later a daughter was born. In now a happy fulfilled marriage, Antony now with a well-paying job travelling the world with visas. He became a marketer and renown in Mombasa construction field as a sought after marketer. The worst was however to happen, Mary passed away due to cancer living behind two children and a single man. He did not recover fast from the loss of the wife and mother but 4 years down the line due to loneliness and needing care for the children he remarried.
Antony narrated his story to Ghetto radio on True Ghetto story that airs every Thursday from 8-10am hosted by MajiMaji and King Kafu.
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