Ivana Davidovic

Nämä kaksi ryhmää menisivät saman paikan, elivät saman alueen, mutta he välttivät toisistaan. Maggie sanoo, että Nanuki on reputatiivinen.

Maggie had learned not to tell people where she's from, in case they assume she's a sex worker too. So, sitting at the bar, Maggie doesn't pay the British soldiers much attention. But they are paying attention to her. Charming. Yeah.

Maggie finishes her lunch and is walking down the stone steps when one of the Kenyan women, who was with the soldiers, catches up with her. She's wary, but also flattered. Maggie doesn't have a phone of her own, so gives her friend's number. That evening, her friend gets a call. She rushes around to Maggie's house. On the other end of the line is the voice of a British man. He says his name is Phil.

He's not how she expected him to be. He seems shy and sweet and he asks when he can see her again. She's cautious, but there is something about his soft demeanor that makes her curious. So they arrange to meet back at the restaurant the following morning. We came upstairs, we talked.

He's a few years older than Maggie and she's struck by how handsome he is. He's tall with dark hair and a cheeky grin. But it's not just compliments that Phil gives her.

He hands over 10,000 Kenyan shillings in cash, or about 125 US dollars. That's when I was like, OK. Wait, can I just interrupt you? Did you think it was strange that you met him for the first time, basically, one-on-one, and he offered you 10,000 straight away? It was weird, but like... Did he think that you were a prostitute? I'm just sorry for me asking like that, but I don't know why he would offer you... Yeah, that's why I told you he respected me, like he didn't...

Hän ei lähettänyt minua niin kuin haluaisin. Hän ei edes kysynyt minua seksistä. Maggie löytää Philin rauhallisuutta. Hän on arvokas. He tietävät yhdessä viikkoja ennen kuin he keskustelevat yhdessä. Ensin he keskustelevat päivän aikana. He puhuvat, harjoittelevat, pelaavat poolia. Maggie on vanhempi Raja. Phil on aina kysynyt hänestä, ja joskus hän ostaa hänelle rauhoja.

Maggie says he makes her feel like the center of his world. In my heart I was like...

He's mine. I'm his. And he never looked. You know, like we are sitting here and women walk around. He never. He used to sit like, we used to sit like this, you know. Locked. You know when you're locked on someone like this, right? There is no wandering eye. No. You feel like you're the center of the universe. Exactly. And he used to tell me that, looking me at my eyes and say, you have a beautiful eyes, you know. I will never leave you. I love you so much, you know. You mean the world to me.

Maggie's mistrust falls away, and it's replaced by the exhilaration of falling in love. Her thoughts are so full of him that she can barely sleep, barely eat. While dating, Phil is regularly sent back to the UK, or off on deployment, sometimes for months at a time. But when they are reunited, the feelings get stronger.

Miten teidän yhteiskunta vaihtoi? Etteivät olleet yhtään kuusi kuukautta. Sitten hän oli täällä kolme viikkoa. Se oli romanttista. Se oli hauskaa. Sanoin, että olen nyt yliopistossa. Se on Romeo ja Julietta, sanoisin. En välttänyt häntä. En välttänyt häntä.

A year after Maggie and Phil first meet, he is returning to Kenya from a deployment. She goes to meet him at the airport. As he pushes his luggage on a trolley through the barriers on the arrivals hall, their eyes meet. He walks straight towards her. He just kneeled down. I was like, God. You know, I was confused. What is this? I only see this in the movie.

He looks up at her and he's holding a ring. He asks me, will you marry me? At first Maggie panics. She's not expecting this. They've only been together for a year. She runs out of the airport and jumps into a taxi to hide. Full of adrenaline, she explains to the driver, a total stranger, that her boyfriend, a white guy, has just asked her to marry him. She doesn't know what to do.

Hän kysyi minua, oletko tyhjä, menetetään mahdollisuudesta? Se oli se, mitä hän sanoi. Maggie aloittaa taksijärjestelmän, menee takaisin polttoaineeseen ja takaisin Philille. Minä olin, että okei. Minä olin rauhoittunut, leikki oli rauhoittunut. Minä olin rauhoittunut, kädet olivat rauhoittuneet. Hän sanoi, että kerro, että kyllä. Minä sanoin, että kyllä. Kaikki ympärillä aloittaa rauhoittumaan ja laulamaan. Se oli, ei, se oli kiva.

Maggie and Phil's fairy tale romance is complete. They're about to become a family. But, as Maggie is about to find out, their happy ending is still out of reach.

So this is where you lived? I used to live here. Let me show you my gates. Maggie has taken me to where she lived when she was engaged to Phil. The river is behind here. We could hear the sounds of the river when we were sleeping. It's like rain. It's peaceful. About a dozen bungalows in a U-shape, with driveways and neat gardens out the front. I used to live here.

This is where Kathy was born. Being here, it's clear that Maggie had everything she could have wanted. A fiancé she loved, a house and garden to raise their children in. She had no reason to suspect that anything was amiss. Back in 2006, Phil is on deployment in Germany when Kathy is born. He's paying Maggie's rent and sending money every month for the baby.

And he writes to Maggie regularly. I've seen some of the letters. They bear the British military stamp for each of the operations he's part of. They're romantic and heartfelt. And he always signs off, your hubby Phil. As soon as we are married over in Kenya or in Britain...

When Kathy is seven months old, Phil is given leave and comes to meet his daughter for the first time. At this point, Maggie and Phil have not seen each other for over a year. Maggie collects him from Nairobi airport. When they drive up to the house, the nanny brings out Kathy, or Kate as her mum calls her, in her arms. He was very happy. Actually he used to hold Kate when we walked around. Kate was always in his hands.

They'd go for lunch back at the restaurant where they met, Kathy sitting on Phil's lap. Yeah, it was fun. It was a family. A real family, right? Yeah, it was. And he was like, I can't wait to take this baby to my country and everybody see my kid, you know, the sisters and the mother. And he was like, my baby is not going to get Kenyan passport, no blue passport, it's a red passport, you know.