Nortey Jr., Sam - Thumbwars [Avidbook, MF, Contemporary, New/Young Adult, Urban Fiction] Chapter Thirteen
That Sunday, we all went to the church Gilliand had shown me. I’d learned from Aletheia that English missionaries had built it during the colonial period. It was where Aunt Kokui married Uncle Oti, where both Aletheia and Gilliand were christened and also where Sunday school was the real reason behind Gilliand’s weekly Sunday stomachaches.
We returned home in the afternoon. A flood of relatives came to pay their condolences for Aunt Qualey. While eating food that my aunt had prepared during the week, the relatives greeted me and inquired about my mother and father. To all of them, I smiled and told them that they were doing well.
I then spent the remainder of the day and part o
