Just Give Me Your Last Name
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So its Thanksgiving weekend, with me thinking about where I could possibly go unleash my thankful heart into a swell time. I get a call from my cousin who says if I was interested, we could hop on a ride to the family house at the west suburbs of Chicago. “Great idea”, I thought.
The first motivation for this trip was of course seeing family and competitively seconded by food. So, we hop on our ‘royal ride’ and drive all the way to the west suburbs of the windy city in about 37minutes that seemed like the hour equivalent as I just couldn’t wait. Finally, we get to the family house and everyone is just as excited as the word can be. I step into the house in a bid to savor the moment and juxtapose that with breathing in the excitement, exhaling worries and many other things that you can imagine. As I try to make the best out of this my multi-tasking escapade, Aunty Ann cuts in unexpectedly with a wide smile. Her husband Uncle Ben joins her quickly. Then, like something that seemed like the result of a planned project, they both blurt out “You must be married!” I immediately reply as if to counter an untimely assertion “Ermm, no…not yet”. They both give me the look that screamed, “Something must be wrong with you”. Just as I try to process this look even further, I hear “O no, you must be joking”. “I must not”, I replied, this time under my breath just to keep the cultural respect string tight in that conversation. So the next words that hit me from Aunty Ann’s end are “Are the men blind, can’t they see what they are missing?” I was trying to process that when Uncle Ben cuts in with his deep voice, “Or could it be that your standards are just too high?” At this point it looked like this conversation was perfectly rehearsed when Aunty Ann cuts in with “Something must be wrong somewhere”. Somewhere indeed, I think to myself. Finally, they both conclude, “You need to check yourself”. That was how Uncle Ben and Aunty Ann shattered my Thanksgiving Joy into pieces of guilt, shame and rejection.
Just before I leave, Aunty Ann comes to whisper, “Something must be wrong maybe with you, I might not be able to say. Well my advice to you is to get a man to JUST GIVE YOU HIS LAST NAME. It is the most important thing; you don’t want to remain a Miss forever”.
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About the Book
Just Give Me Your Last Name is a book that was born out of the life of a frustrated single waiting endlessly for love. This book takes you through my journey of finding true love in singleness and becoming whole in that process. The aim of this book is to give you a different perspective to single life and to help you embrace your single journey as you hope to embrace the marriage journey. The book is about finding the silver lining in the seemingly cloud of single life and letting that lining trump the cloud until the gloss of your single life is evident to the world. My hope is that as you read this book, you will prioritize finding and giving love as a single person instead of waiting for love to find you. This book will move you to the front seat of your single life, have you switch to cruise mode, and soar the length and breadth of singleness in confidence. This book will make you laugh, get you thinking, and ultimately, move you to action that will birth the change you always hoped for.
About the Author
Temi is a Cyber Risk consultant who works with one of the Big Four and lives in Chicago. She is a single with a passion to see other singles live their best lives on their journey to finding true love. Temi holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Covenant University, Nigeria and a master’s degree in Information Technology and Management from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States. Temi loves to cook and recently won the People’s award for a chili competition organized in the windy city of Chicago. She currently runs a YouTube channel called ‘The Whole Bits with Temi’ where she speaks on relationships, career and faith. She also hosts a blog where she shares her life’s experiences and lessons learned. Temi is an avid reader and loves to spend her free time with family and friends.