Their voice · 1957
They met at a church social in Accra. He talked too much.
She recalls the church social in Accra where they met, Samuel talking the whole walk home, and deciding she could probably live with that.
Hearing someone's voice across time is something no photograph can do.
Their life, as remembered
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She never got used to the cold. Not in sixty years. She just stopped saying so. The food was the harder thing. Everything tasted a bit like nothing. She learned to cook around it. You brought your own flavour or you went without.
London, November 1963
He built the pews in the back garden. It took eight months.
Comfort remembers vacuuming sawdust from the bedroom every night for nearly a year while Samuel built the pews, and the moment she sat in the finished third pew from the front.
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“She arrived in London in November with two suitcases and a coat that was not warm enough. She said nothing about the cold for the first year. We only found out later because she wrote it in a letter home. She said: do not tell Samuel, he will only worry.”
Abena Osei· Daughter
She worked nights at King's for twelve years. She would come home at seven in the morning and Samuel would be leaving for the early service. They would cross in the hallway. He would kiss her on the forehead. She would be asleep before he got back.
He died on a Sunday morning. She had made him breakfast. He ate it. Then he was gone. She still does not really have words for it. She still goes to church every Sunday. Third pew, left side. She says she is saving his spot.
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“After Samuel died she sat very still for a week. She did not cry in front of anyone. Then on the Sunday she got up, got dressed in her good coat, and went to church. Third pew. She has not missed a Sunday since. She says she is not ready to stop going somewhere he loved.”
Grace Asante· Congregation member
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