In January 2020 I started receiving messages from someone I didn’t know on Facebook messenger. It was one of those situations where he was chatting with himself in my inbox. Sometimes I opened the messages and closed the chat just to send across a message. My attitude did not deter him. One day he sent another message asking me about my church. That caught my interest.I looked up his profile and I realized all of our mutual friends were my church members. “Maybe I know this guy,” I thought. I responded to his message and engaged him in a conversation.…
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Karen was abandoned by her older brother when she was 14 after their dad died. Years later, he suddenly showed up on her doorstep, claiming he had an old box that belonged to her, given by their father. When Karen was 14 years old, her father Gregory passed away from a terminal illness. She was then placed under the responsibility of her 22-year-old brother, George, who didn’t want the burden of raising his younger sibling. With no other relatives willing to take her in, George decided to leave Karen at an orphanage while he lived on his own and worked at…
An old man decided to show his wife where he grew up, only for her to notice a beggar who looked exactly like him. She confronted him about it, asking if he had a brother he never spoke about, and his answer surprised her. Thomas and Maureen enjoyed life as a retired couple after earning enough to support them for as long as they lived. They had loving children and grandchildren who spoiled them and provided them with everything they could need. As they worked hard for years, they’ve been traveling and seeing new places now that they’ve retired. While planning their…
9-Year-Old Girl Keeps Disappearing after School, Dad Follows Her Trail into the Forest — Story of the Day The single father of a nine-year-old schoolgirl follows her out into the woods and discovers she has been keeping a whole secret life from him. Peter West had been raising his daughter Beth on his own since his wife Dana had passed away when their little girl was just three. For Peter, his wife’s death at the age of 28 had been a terrible blow and one he never quite got over. Peter dedicated all of his generous and loving heart to…
A poor woman browsing a flea market is disheartened to realize that all she can afford is a pair of broken armchairs. She eventually buys them anyway, but while cleaning them at home, she discovers an envelope inside one of them that changes her life forever. Scarlett Childs and her husband Travis were both orphans who fell in love while they were teenagers and got married right after they left the orphanage. A year later, they welcomed two beautiful daughters – a set of twins – and that’s when things started getting tough for them. Unfortunately, their financial life wasn’t as smooth…
Alex always hated a painting his father Matthew hung in the living room. So he threw it away when the older man died and forgot about it. Years later, he lost everything in a scandal, including his home, and discovered the painting in a dumpster. It was only then that he understood the real significance of it. Matthew was an artist who commissioned paintings whenever possible. Still, his primary income was a night job cleaning a restaurant and part-time work as a construction man on the weekends. His wife, Molly, stayed home to raise their five children and couldn’t help him with the…
A woman simply known as Domitila says she got married to her brother without knowing they’re related because she never had an idea about his existence.The lady who spoke with Afrimax, revealed that her parents abandoned them when they were kids so they all got separated while searching for a means of survival since there was no one to look after them.Domitila and her brother never grew up together, so neither of them knew of the other, however, fate had other plans for them. She said that it was when she traveled to the city in search of job that…
Sharing the story, the Twitter user lamented the bizarre things people do all in the name of trying to save their marriage. File photo A Nigerian lady identified on Twitter as @Sisi_Yemmie has shared a horrific story online about a married woman.The Twitter user claimed that the married woman poisoned her own daughter to death to please her new husband.According to @Sisi_Yemmie, a guy disclosed the disturbing story on the radio while stating that his mother killed his sister because his stepfather did like her and was always complaining. The lad also revealed that his mother also confessed to having…
This looks like an impossible partnership you would never have believed if it were not caught on camera. In case you missed it you can watch it now. The video is not actually recent as it was originally posted in December last year. Just that it is going viral again. The video shows the monkey stealing a packet of chips from a shop by standing on the dog’s back. It has been shared by Memes.bks on Instagram with the caption: “Who say monkey and dog are not good friends.” The video amused viewers, who reacted with hilarious comments about their…
A plus-size lady got guests confused and distracted as well as sent social media users into a frenzy with her sizzling performance on the dance floor. The lady’s lovely dance was captured in a video on social media platform Instagram. The beautifully dressed lady first started slowly with a soft waist dance before picking up the pace.She did a clockwise turn while whining her waist effortlessly and carrying herself with great energy. As she continued the clockwise waist dance, the lady supported her back with her left hand. She was joined by a petite lady who was no match for…