Seasons In Purdah

By AnjuelleFloyd

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Language: English Not Rated (NR)

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What happens when yourbest friends are two men and you marry one of them?

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This is the case for 35-year-old Sahel Ohin.

As a child Sahel, spent the afternoons of spring and summermaking mud cakes. Titus brought the water, Carl the dirt from his mother’sflower garden. All three lived on the same street in Oakland, California. Aftermixing the dirt and water Sahel poured the mud into tin pie pans her mother haddiscarded. Titus and Carl would then place the pans filled with mud in the sunto dry.

This was their work.

As members of the St. Maria’s Parish, Sahel, Titus and Carlattended the parish school, went on to Oakland Catholic Prep. and Cal Berkeley.On graduating Sahel moved on to study psychology. Titus and Carl enteredmedical school.

A decade later and a practicing psychologist, Sahel lost hersight in a horrific accident. Crushed beyond degree, Titus, a heart surgeon,becomes her husband.

Carl Pierson, the neurosurgeon attending Sahel’s injuriesrefuses to accept her blindness. Nor does he acquiesce to Sahel having marriedTitus.

On arriving at the Masonic Ballroom, where Titus is toreceive an award, Surgeon of the Year Sahel wonders how she will manage eatingwhen dinner is served. A voicewithin tells her, All is well. You’ll be okay.

It is Sahel’s first time attending a major event sincelosing her sight eight months earlier. She has taken no classes for the blind.

Sahel is stuck.

Amid gleeful greetings muffled by the swish of gowns andfootsteps of heels Sahel sits to their table waiting for the annual medicaldinner to commence. Encased in her world of darkness and anxiety increasing shereceives a vision.

A man and woman, each similar in age to Sahel and Titus arearguing. Sahel has never seen their faces. These are the first images she hasseen since losing her sight. Seconds later Sahel is introduced to James Bolden.

An immediate kinship emerges between them. The two converse during the meal. WhenSahel accidentally overturns her glass of water James ushers her out onto theverandah.

Assuring Titus and her father that all is well, Sahel remains upon the verandah with James. They resumetheir conversation that has become for Sahel, a communion of souls

While insidethe ballroom Titus receives his award and addresses the crowd James, out on theverandah with Sahel asks, Do you believein reincarnation...life after death?

A serious question to pose when having initially me someone.James’s words haunt Sahel, much like the voice that in times of stress reminds,You’ll be okay.

Four months earlier Sahel’s heart stopped beating. She died.Working desperately Titus and Carl brought Sahel back to life.

Weeks later and for the first time Sahel heard the voice, All will be okay. It was the same voicethat told Sahel, No. You must go back. Itis not your time to die.

The voice, as with James’s disturbing question, Do you believe in reincarnation....,offers a door through which for Sahel to connect with the person she met indeath, herself ...and the journey Sahel’s lack of sight demands she walk.