Somewhere in 'The Rebirth'

...Obong, a self-acclaimed war survival who killed over a hundred enemies with seven bullets. According to him, he survived twelve gunshots fired directly to his chest but had no single scar to show for it. Obong never ran out of stories and this was what Itoro loved about him. With a bold face he told stories that were ordinarily impossible to be true. He was rarely seen not in a drunk state, and his bottle of dry gin was always firmly gripped under his armpit. This was his source of inspiration and dexterousness in demonstrating his stories to spice them up. From the rumours Itoro heard when he newly came into the compound, his wife left him the day he vomited into her full pot of soup after drinking to stupor. Another person Itoro loved was Papa Chidi. A potbellied father of nine who smiled once in a blue moon. Every morning he would sit in front of his door with his snuffbox and grunt heavily after every sniff. Tenants called the box his tenth child and he took pride in that. The only problem was that he was prone to being aggressive and easily irritated after sniffing the pulverized tobacco. At this point his wife and every other person becomes a nuisance to him. On one of those mornings, his last son approached him to request for money to buy biscuit and the outcome was terrible ....


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