Every small town has its drunk, mad man and mad woman. Of course sometimes a single town may have more than one of each. Amkor town was not an exception. Yawas was the town drunk. He was a middle aged man with moderate education who liked to flaunt his education by addressing all the villagers in English. Of course half of them had no idea what he was talking about but they enjoyed it nonetheless. It was never clear exactly what intoxicated Yawas because he was intoxicated every minute of the day. Wake him up in the middle of the night and he will respond in the usual slur of a drunk!
Google Image
Over the years, Yawas' mental and physical health deteriorated to the extent that it was difficult to discern whether he was a drunk or merely a crazy person. After about a year, he became more and more withdrawn until at a point, he only spoke to a handful of people. These were mainly the people that fed him of which my mother was one.
One morning, the village woke up to see a clean-shaven, sober Yawas seated in front of his favourite bar. He was not drinking. Everyone wondered what was going on. Such a thing had never happened in the village within recallable history. When approached by concerned villagers on the subject, he only told them that he had found love and the love of his life forbade him from drinking and that was that!
Everyone was curious to know who his love was but he would not tell. After a couple of weeks he moved into an abandoned warehouse along the market Road. Gradually, he cleaned the place up. The next thing, Adi moved in. Who would have thought!
Adi was the village mad woman or at least that's what everyone thought. But if she was mad, the occurrence the village was witnessing did not make any sense. She stopped being confrontational and seldom responded to people who made it a point to aggravate her.
Yawas, to the best of my knowledge, never drank again. A year later, the couple had a baby girl. Until the time of this story the couple still live together. No one understands exactly what happened there but my guess is that love would do that to ya!