I wrote these when I was 15 or 16, I don't really remember. So please, do pardon my sentence structure, grammar, crude humour, foul words if any and so on. I did put the dates but they're all on flying sheets and I don't know in which order I wrote them. I wanted to write like, a book but many sheets are missing, I might have burnt some of them. So I'll be posting them when I find them. Emmadee's a fictitious name. But the name of her father, the village and the island are real.
This is the story of a real life fighter. This is the story of Emmadee. "Nobody said life would be easy, they just said it would be worth it", Emmadee is still trying to find out whether her life is worth it. Let us go into a flashback, not that far, just a half century ago.
Year 1958, Emmadee was born in a village named Bon Acceuil, on the little paradise Island of Mauritius. The youngest amongst the six children, she was the fifth girl to be born. During that era, boys were considered a boon and girls were burden. Need I say more? Need I say to what extent the five sisters' lives were luxurious?
No matter how young the girls were, they had to wake up early to cook for the only male sibling they had. Only then could they go to school. I remember a funny incident Emmadee related to me. Her sister and she, shared a frock, and they had to take turns to go out. Thus they could never be somewhere together. Were they poor? No. But the money was being saved for the brother.
Emmadee's father, Dhananjay lamented his misery of not having enough money to get his daughters married. The outrageous paradox here is, he got his son married twice, both marriages as pompous. Concerning this matter, I can proudly say that this mentality has now changed. A girl being born may even be a better news than a baby-boy.
What was good about Dhananjay though, was that he was responsible. He would buy all the food required each month and he would pay the bills. His biggest drawback was that he would listen to every single thing his son said. And his son, of course, that spoilt brat, would take advantage of this.
Dhananjay would abuse of his two youngest daughters' kindness by making them serve his son like maidservants. This slogging, eventually, years later, had affected Emmadee's sister's metabolism. It had weakened a lot and she developed a cancer. She died at a young age. Emmadee was very close to her and after enduring this separation, Emmadee's mother died a year later, leaving Emmadee to suffer a bit more.
At the age of 29, Emmadee was still unmarried even though she had had several decent marriage proposals. Dhananjay would always find a way to drive the proposals away, the main excuse being, he does not have money to get Emmadee married. One day, a very good proposal came for Emmadee. A woman had seen her at a relative's wedding and thought her son and Emmadee would look fabulous as a couple. Her son was completing his studies abroad in view of becoming a doctor. They lived in a mansion and were very rich. Any excuse of Dhananjay would not work this time, the woman would bear the costs of the wedding and his son was very good-looking. What could Dhananjay possibly say to turn them down?
Dhananjay wanted to see the man before accepting the proposal, the woman left, her son would return in two days. Fate wanted something else foe Emmadee. Fate wanted to see how tough Emmadee could be. A day after, a suspicious looking man comes with a basket a fruits and a proposal for his son. Dhananjay willingly agrees. No inquiry about who this person is, how did he know about Emmadee, what is his family background like, not a thing. This was how the nightmare of Emmadee worsened.
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