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Y’all listen to this wild ass shit
So in 2003 I was 5 years old and my mom decided out of thin air one day that we were going to Africa and we were gonna stay there for 6 months so about 4 months in something OC happened that I won’t go into detail about and long story short I had to leave ASAP
It was a life & death type situation so my mom had to get me out but she couldn’t come with me so she had to find someone ASAP in the airport to bring me back to America
She started asking all our skin folk (other Africans) on their way to America to bring me but of course everybody had an excuse . So my mom slipped the airline ticket lady at Brussels something and asked who on the flight was coming back to America
She pointed her in the direction of the “whet man na corner” (white man in the corner for the afros” and he told my mom he was in no mental state to travel with a minor because he had just lost his grandmother . My mom didn’t know this man at all whatsoever
But after explaining how dire the situation was he agreed to bring me a screaming , crying 5 year old he had only met 2 secs ago to America
My mom has been trying to find this man for 15 years , we never got his name or anything . So like a week ago my mom found him through a family member who actually worked with him and she said he matched the description and everything
My mom emailed him & this man remembered everything 😭 he said he never forgot about me or the songs he was tryna sing in Krio for me to stop me from crying , he had told his family about it and everything . Come to find out he actually worked with the Obama administration
And he ran for governor of Virginia in 2017 y’all his name is @tomperriello I know this is a long ass thread and may not seem like much to many but there’s a HUGE possibility I wouldn’t be here today if this man didn’t bring me back over here .
Finding him after 15 years is really oc because I thought about it a lot , he didn’t have to help me , he didn’t owe me anything . I’m so so grateful !!!!!!! @tomperriello @tomperriello !
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