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My Best Friend Wrecked My Brother's Home
Mali's Story Part IV: Imagine a stranger coming to your house and taking over your bedroom. What would you do?
Part IV
“Light up the darkness.” — Bob Marley.
Who is Jeff?
Jeff is my half-brother and the first child of my father's twenty-two children.
My mom told me that Jeff's name was Jibril which her mother gave her at birth, but he changed it to Jeff when he became a Christian. She explained that Jeff's mother told her that her first child came into the world while she labored on the farm alone, and an angel helped her deliver the baby. She named her Jibril, meaning an angel.
The dilemma of a first son
Jeff was not like the men I knew around me. He was an angel like his mother.
Jeff was born and bred in the same environment as his father and other men. But he wasn't like them. I remember my brother coming…
