CHAPTER 16
My Dear Chief Udu,
I am your wife, Nancy, the widow of your late son, Paul. I am writing to ask after your health. I hope you and your loved ones are doing well.
My dear father-in-law, the aim of this letter is to inform you of my decision to reconcile with you people. And this is straight from the heart. You elders say that what an elder sees while sitting, a child cannot see it even if he climbs the tallest Iroko tree. This has dawned on me. I am now ready to marry any of my late husband’s kinsmen that you will ask me to. Like Ruth in the Holy Bible, your people will be my people and your God will be my God.
This is to give credence to the fact that I am head to toe committed to sustaining the relationship between us. I share your views that if my two children had be
