lage and to share crafts, games and skits with the local Masai children. None of us had ever traveled to Africa before, and the deep colors and vibrancy of the landscape and people made us a profound impression.
Our driver, Frances, was a black-skinned Masai man with a brilliant smile. One evening, Frances needed to deliver a Masai chief to the local hospital clinic and asked if anyone wanted to accompany him. I volunteered, and once our errand was completed, we began the fifty-minute journey back into town. I knew Frances was married and asked him how he had first met his wife.
“I was fifteen years old when I first met Mary,”he told me. “She was collecting water at the town well with the other women. I was with my friends and showed off in front of her as boys do, but we never spoke. The first time I saw her I thought she was an angel. She was so beautiful, and her smile lit up everything and everyone around her.”
He paused to hide a smile of his own before he went on.
“The problem was that Mary is a Kikuyu, and I am a Masai. The two bribes have a history of hatred and bloodbaths. They do not intermarry or trust each other. They do not even speak.”
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He explained that two years went by before he saw Mary again. He was then seventeen years old and about to leave for Nairobi to attend the schoolteachers college. They spoke for a long time. He wanted to ask where she stayed so that he would not lose her again, but he admitted that his ego got in the way. Instead, he decided to give her his address in Nairobi feeling that if she really liked him she would write.
She did.
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