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eBook Category: Romance
eBook Description: Marine Sugi is an imaginary love story of a wonderfully attractive, Rwandan young widow together with her different lovers in 2000. When Marine Sugi is about to marry one of them, the ghost of her dead fine husband appears to her and tells her, "To marry your present lover is to betray me." Indeed, unknown to the young lady, the lover Marine Sugi is about to marry is partly responsible for her dead husband's assassination and her dead father-in-law's assassination. When the lover unexpectedly discovers that Marine Sugi was Peace Uwirwanda's wife, he gets her jailed. Guided by the ghost of her dead husband and helped by friends, Marine Sugi gets out of jail and gets his lover sentenced to life imprisonment. To her great satisfaction, she unexpectedly marries the lover she appreciates most and gives birth to a wonderful baby nine months after her marriage. Throughout the novel, Marine Sugi's past sexual experiences and her debts constantly affect her thoughts, her decisions and her actions. Her three inner voices in her mind constantly intervene to discuss her haunting conflicts, to advise her how to react, or to make comments on what she is watching or what she is doing. They make comments when she is dancing; they make comments when she is making love.

eBook Publisher: Fiction4All/Fiction4All, Published: 2007, 2007
Fictionwise Release Date: February 2008

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Words: 55838
Reading time: 159-223 min.
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About half past nine on Saturday morning, on June 17, 2000, Marine Sugi left Remera, her residential quarter for Mille Collines hotel located few miles away in Kigali Capital city.

In blue, decently dressed, Marine Sugi walked two kilometers or so before taking a taxi. Gracefully moving her body, she attracted the most indifferent males met on her way--she was indeed naturally a wonderfully attractive lady.

Apparently absent-minded, she occupied, about eleven o'clock, a remote table in the bar room of the hotel, facing the swimming pool. It was a particularly hot day; some tourists were swimming, others were enjoying a sunbath after swimming.

Marine Sugi put aside her fine handbag and asked the barman to serve her a bottle of beer. She would eat a light meal at noon, at the same place. She was alone on the table and she wanted to be alone. She had been thinking of her plight as a childless, young widow; she wanted to keep on thinking about her problem--away from familiar eyes.

Marine Sugi was twenty-four. Her husband Peace Uwirwanda had died two years before--two years after their marriage.

As she was gazing at the swimming tourists, Marine Sugi inwardly heard her inner voices making comments on her haunting problem.

First voice: How are you going to get a new husband?

Second voice: Where are you going to find him? Males died on battlefield. Males died of genocide. Others are in jail. Others fled the country. Where are you going to find a new husband?

Third voice: There are males who are dying of AIDS, too.

First voice: And there are also selfish men who do not want to get married, too.

Second voice: There are males who are too poor to get married, too.

Third voice: Other males are jobless.

First voice: So, you must live alone until you die as nuns do.

Second voice: You can't live that way.

Third voice: For nuns, it is a matter of choice. It is unwise to compare their case to yours.

First voice: What if you became a nun? Imagine you, Sister Marine Sugi!

Second voice: No nunnery will accept you; you are a widow.

Third voice: The only solution to your problem lies in polygamy. There are women who think that way. "We must share husbands," they say.

First voice: It is immoral to share husbands.

Second voice: It would not be immoral at all if the Parliament passed a law promoting polygamy.

Third voice: There are women who think indeed that polygamy should be obligatory to solve the acute problem of so many childless, young widows.

First voice: No sensible Parliament will make polygamy obligatory. That would be immoral.

Second voice: Exceptional problems need exceptional solutions. Young widows should at least get the opportunity to give birth to children if they cannot have regular males. There are women who think that way and they are right. Other women say they cannot tolerate to live without children when female animals are regularly allowed by man to reproduce through injected semen.

Third voice: Sexual matters are too personal to be treated in Parliament.

First voice: That's right. And there is no strong argument that would lead to obligatory polygamy.

Second voice: What a strange statement! Females naturally need males to live properly--that's a strong argument!

Third voice: Indeed, it's unnatural for women to live without having sex. And it is unnatural for men to live without making love.

First voice: Instead of sharing husbands, it is wiser, and moral, to wait for younger lovers or foreign males. There are women who think that way.

Second voice: Only selfish, unreasonable married women think that way. They are too jealous to share their husbands. But if they became widows, they would think otherwise. Tell me; how can a widow aged thirty wait for a young child aged, say, ten, who would first grow up before becoming her lover? Who would compel the grown-up, would-be lover aged, say, twenty-five to marry an old woman aged forty-five? Why should he prefer an old woman aged forty-five to a sweeter, younger friend of the same age?

Third voice: There are other selfish, unreasonable, married women who voice that young widows should have sex by using unnatural penises! Imagine living that way all one's lifetime! Other selfish women say that instead of sharing husbands, childless, young widows should forget forever sexual intercourses as if they were bodiless creatures!

First voice: There are people who live without having sex. So, don't worry so much about males.

Second voice: And there are bold women who know how to seduce males properly and who eventually make them marry them. They do not wait as you do; they take the initiative, they approach males properly and conquer them.

Third voice: Other bolder widows seduce married men and make them divorce irresponsible wives and marry them at best or make them their regular lovers at worst.

First voice: That's immoral.

Second voice: Exceptional problems should get exceptional solutions. Fight and win; that's what other realistic women do. You are naturally a wonderful lady; all people know that and say so. But unfortunately, you are too shy to speak your mind when you fall in love.

Third voice: That's your great flaw indeed.

First voice: Moral women pray and wait for future partners God prepared for them. That's the natural way. Males court females--not the other way round.

Second voice: What do equal rights for men and women mean to you?

Third voice: It is your right to speak your mind when in need. Say, if you are first to fall in love, you should be first to declare your love to your appreciated friend. That's quite normal. True, you are a wonderful lady--body and heart. And all people think and say so. You are good at moving your body while walking, but that's not enough. Unexpressed feelings will never serve you. The so-called natural way is the one that helps you to live better. And what humans call natural changes every day to serve their changing purposes.

First voice: What is your ideal husband by the way? There are people who prefer partners of the same ethnic group, the same region, and the same faith...

Second voice: That's nonsense. Wise women take the nearest males as husbands.

Third voice: Other women prefer wealthy partners to educated ones.

First voice: It is an illusion actually--no one chooses his or her partner! It is up to God only to choose partners for his creatures.

Second voice: An ideal husband should be just a male who loves his wife. That's all. The rest is meaningless.

Third voice: True, an ideal husband should love his wife properly--that is, he should be faithful to her. He should not be poor.

First voice: He should be healthy and strong.

Second voice: He should be a genuine male, too--good at making love.

Third voice: He should be educated and wise enough to understand what his wife needs to build a fine family--tenderness, genuine love, respect.

First voice: What are you going to do to conquer a new husband?

Second voice: You must act properly. Loose, but shrewd widows are getting married again before younger, single women. Why? Because they know how to use properly their sweet voices, their sweet kisses and sweet smiles in addition to their attractive gait, their attractive looks to win their male friends' hearts.

Third voice: You're good at attracting males, too. But you do not dare enough to speak your mind at the right time. And you do not go out enough to meet them where they are.

First voice: True, you attend Mass on Sundays, you go to work and you go to market on Saturdays. But that's not enough.

Second voice: You are always wearing long dresses and long skirts as if you were living in 1900. What was fashionable for your great-grand mother is no more fashionable today.

Third voice: True, you are an elementary school teacher but you are a young woman, too. Teachers should always be decently dressed at work. But it is not a crime to wear short and middle-sized dresses when in need.

First voice: Teachers should always be dressed decently wherever they are.

Second voice: Wear short, middle and long dresses depending on circumstances. Women are created first to make life worthwhile, that is, to attract males, to love them and to perpetuate life. It is wise to attract them wherever you are, whatever you do, however old you are until you die. You should seduce as many males as possible until you meet the right one to remarry. That's what so-called loose women are doing. Viewed as loose women before they meet their future husbands, they become faithful wives once married.

Third voice: Look at the half-nude, wonderful tourist so good at moving her wonderfully provocative, bright buttocks.

First voice: She must be African.

Second voice: She is undoubtedly a Rwandan lady living abroad.

Third voice: She may come from Burundi, too.

First voice: She has a wonderful, male friend.

Second voice: Look at her superb, bright, fleshy thighs. She is about to throw herself into the swimming pool.

Third voice: Look at the two remote, half-nude lovers kissing each other, enjoying sun bathing.

First voice: The woman's drawers are too transparent to be worn in public.

Second voice: As long as the sex is properly covered there is no problem at all. Women are created to attract males, as the sun is there to shine.

Third voice: Her lover is wearing indecent drawers.

First voice: Indeed, his drawers are too short to be worn in public! His thing is getting erected in public! That is unacceptable.

Second voice: Unacceptable to whom? They are enjoying life properly. If you do not like what you are watching go back home.

Third voice: Indeed, what is culturally indecent to you is not indecent to them. Their culture is simply different.

First voice: Whatever their culture is, it is unacceptable to get erection in public. Shame on them!

Second voice: Who is to blame? The seductive, half-nude lady? The male friend? The hot sun? The erecting penis? Nature?

Third voice: Erection is sometimes beyond control.

First voice: The male should have worn decent trousers. He knew quite well that under the hot sun his thing would get erected.

Second voice: How can he then enjoy properly the sunbath? They are wonderful lovers. They are true to themselves. Their culture is different. They are never ashamed of exposing their half-nude bodies to the sun and to the public.

Third voice: They are never ashamed of their intimate organs indeed. Unlike Rwandans, for instance, they shamelessly call their private parts by their natural names.

First voice: Indeed, that is unacceptable in Rwandan culture.

Second voice: But it is rather shameful to be ashamed of one's private parts! Our culture is in a sense rather strange. If you cannot call the male organ by its natural name--imboro in Kinyarwanda, your mother tongue, how can you dare to ask your unfamiliar wooer to use condom while making love with him? If you cannot call the female organ igituba in Kinyarwanda, what English speaking people call vagina, how will you be able to talk about sex before making love in case you would have to have protected sex?

Third voice: In other words, Rwandans still have a long way to go to fight AIDS properly.

First voice: That's right. It is culturally offensive indeed to call a penis imboro in Kinyarwanda and a vagina igituba in Kinyarwanda even though those are the genuine natural names.

Second voice: But it is not shameful at all to use those natural names while making love to familiar friends.

Third voice: Genuine gentlemen do not do that. They may use pronouns when in need. Say, bold ladies may say, "move the penetrating thing properly" or "caress it" or "move it properly".

First voice: Your culture is fine indeed. There are things that must remain sacred.

Second voice: Not nowadays, especially when what you believe in may prevent you from protecting yourself from HIV infection.

Third voice: That's right. AIDS is taking so many lives in Rwanda. However, it is too early to call a penis imboro or a vagina igituba, in public.

First voice: It is not necessary to do so. There are many ways of voicing private parts otherwise.

Second voice: What a marvelous kiss! What wonderful lovers! By the way, how are you going to satisfy your troublesome libido? You want a male so much.

Third voice: Where are you going to find him?

First voice: You would get pregnant if a male made love to you today without using condoms. Do you remember?

Second voice: You can't get pregnant unless you want too. Indeed, you are a wise woman. You always have protected sex any time you have sex after your husband's death. Where are you going to find a male to make love to you today? The answer is simple--nowhere. You have no regular male. No male will make love to you today. How are you going to get a new husband? How are you going to live without having sex?

Third voice: You are so young. And you are so wonderful.

First voice: Wonderful women always get married.

Second voice: All wonderful widows don't get married. Adeline, Justine, Claire, Louise, Umutesi, Nsekonziza and Nyirabihogo are wonderful ladies who never got married again! Yet, all of them want to have husbands to kiss and to top.

Third voice: You must find a husband at any cost--Old or crippled, but a husband.

First voice: God will help you; you were faithful to your husband. Moreover, when he died, you remained faithful to him for one year!

Second voice: Imagine twelve months of fidelity to a dead husband! That's too much for a wonderful, young lady.

Third voice: From June 15, 1998 to June 16, 1999--that's a long period indeed. It is a pity; no lover came to solace you after the mourning period.

First voice: No regular lover came indeed.

Second voice: You have suffered very much. No male penetrated you throughout the mourning period. No male kissed you in June 1999 although you were ready to welcome one after June 16.

Third voice: No male made love to you last July although you were ready for it.

First voice: You got a male last August.

Second voice: But he did it once.

Third voice: You got none in September 1999.

First voice: You got a male in October 1999.

Second voice: Unfortunately, he only made love to you twice throughout the month.

Third voice: You didn't have sex the whole month in November 1999.

First voice: You got a male in December 1999 who made love to you twice only.

Second voice: What does the year 2000 mean to you? Emotional misery! You enjoyed sex once in January 2000!

Third voice: No male penetrated you in February 2000! What does the year 2000 mean to you? No happiness for sure.

First voice: No male kissed you in March 2000! What does the year 2000 mean to you if you have no regular lover? Tell me.

Second voice: You got one in April, but he did it once!

Third voice: You got a male in May 2000; he made love to you three times.

First voice: No one has come to kiss you through this month.

Second voice: This situation is unbearable. You cannot live without enjoying sex with a permanent male--a husband or not. What does the year 2000 mean to you? Most ladies all over the world are rejoicing with their lovers or husbands night and day to celebrate the magic year--2000. When are you going to enjoy happiness as other people are doing throughout the world?

Third voice: It is an unbearable situation indeed if you keep in mind the wonderful love affairs enjoyed with your husband for two years, almost daily.

First voice: Indeed, after the naturally unwelcome period for vaginal penetration, your husband almost made love to you daily--any time he wanted you, and any time you wanted him.

Second voice: Only fellow widows can imagine how you tremendously want a healthy male--educated or not. There is no place where to find him. No company sells males at least for one hour. Males are naturally fortunate indeed. They are the ones who ask for sex. They are the only ones who can satisfy their libido on sex market.

Third voice: Eat your meal and go back home.