By Andrew Pacutho, Uganda: I find myself hunched over pieces of paper and sometimes on my phone writing. Actually I am sitting in the barbers chairs, taking advantage of a slight malfunction in equipment to punch out this final copy of my last letter as a single man. Wow, someone should have told my organising committee that I am really […]
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By Andrew Pacutho, Uganda: It's peaceful and quiet. That is something rare with all this hustle and bustle of work and wedding organising. You know I always looked out for a woman to love me but that goal eluded me a lot and all that I was left with at the end of each episode was the shards of my […]
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By Andrew Pacutho, Uganda: It's amazing what goes into a wedding from the proposal to the honey moon. It is months of work, and stress and pressure. I now know why most couples do not look that happy in some wedding photos; it's just over whelming. There are all these fears about money and the arrangements. For me, there is […]
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By Andrew Pacutho, Uganda: No one said love was easy…at least that is what I think they should have said. Love is hard. But love, at least the feeling of being in love, is illusory in nature. Halt, don't press the panic button. Let me reassure you, I love you. What I mean to say is that the butterflies never […]
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By Andrew Pacutho, Uganda: So you know the letters I have been sending you? One of my colleagues at work landed on the copies I keep on my laptop while I was away. When I returned he told me that I had a very idealistic view of what love is and I need to come back down to earth and […]
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By Andrew Pacutho: The seconds pile up into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into weeks. Weeks into months. Months into years. The minutes really have piled up. I have known you many years and yet none have been more vivid than the last three years, one of which was spent pulling leaves of sunflowers saying, “She loves […]
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By Andrew Pacutho, Uganda: It's been a couple of weeks and marriage is still on my mind. The butterflies have settled and my smile has been replaced by furrowed brows as I find my mind wondering deep into thought about out life together. Clearly we have absolutely no experience whatsoever and the proof around points to a tough climb ahead. […]
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By Andrew Pacutho, Uganda: Forgive me, but I do not understand. All this talk about good for nothing men who abandon and cheat on their wives really baffles me. The stories of men who mistreated and disrespected women really bother me. You see, these stories are shared like we all come from the same elk. That we sprung from the […]
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By Andrew Pacutho: A friend once said we should always ask someone to marry us with the expectation she will say yes. If we know she will say yes we would have planned for the aftermath of her answer. And that is really, really true. But I am sure no man walks into such a scenario without butterflies running amok […]
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By Andrew Pacutho: I woke up this morning, and while most of my days were the same as it had always been for the last 2 plus years, everything was different, for this morning like every morning since you said yes, I was engaged. My phone has not stopped ringing, my inbox is full and my Facebook wall is abuzz […]
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