Surprises and wings for 25! 🎉

Uncle Kpami,

You would have been 25 today if you were still here.

I actually thought your 25th birthday was last year, so I started preparing this on the 5th of April, 2021. I stopped when I recalculated your age shortly after. If that doesn’t tell you I might have co-organized a surprise party with Ini, Chidinma and Lola, your babies, I don’t know what will. But I’ve been thinking about it since yesterday, and you might have been in the UK with Ekene, who knows? I imagine you walking on the streets of Birmingham or Edinburgh with a winter jacket, frozen hands and ice on your head, lol.

I was going through my camera roll this evening, and I found two videos Ekene sent me from the day you guys came to visit me, and it made me smile a lot. I haven’t heard your voice in so long, and now I’m going to look for your voice notes so they can lift my heart again.

I’m sure you already know this, but you’ll probably be the first person I look for when I leave this place. Just so I could give you a really really really big hug. How I crave just one more now. 😪

Thankfully, I’m no longer as sad as I used to be when I think about you. I’m writing this teary-eyed, but I will try to be a big girl. Not that you needed me to be, anyway, because you’ll still complain that I was growing wings. Btw, nobody tells me that these days, and I’m glad I don’t hear it. Let it just be one of those things between you and me. Our sacred code of communication. Haq.

It still boggles my mind that I knew you for just over a year, and yet, the things you taught me will stay till the end of my days here on this earth. I think of how patient you were with me, Joshua, and I pray to be that with the people I come in contact with. I don’t know how you did it, but you were the right blend of everything. I’m glad I learnt so much from you, so well, in such little time. You would be really really proud of the woman I’m becoming, and I know you are.

I wish we had more pictures, more hugs, and more time. There’s a lot of current affairs you need to catch up on because things do be happening these days o!

We still miss you so much, but we’re doing okay without you here. It could be better, but as they say, it gets easier with time.

I’m more excited about you this year because I remember your face and voice more now. Last year I started to forget what you looked like, and it terrified me. But this year, I remember, and I’m glad I do.

As usual, I look forward to our reunion. But for now, I’ll keep expanding the territory of my wings and making you proud, as always.

Love,

Your investment ❤️