Adam's Apple

" ...and  he is now supporting the girl's tuition and allowance!", she concluded teary-eyed. The hurt was evident beyond the tears.

It was while she was having her chemotherapy sessions that she first shared her suspicion about her Caucasian husband who appeared to be getting more aloof to her but extra friendly to a help in their restaurant. When she mentioned her observation to him, he dismissed it as silly.

In the subsequent months, her suspicion was heightened because of reports from friends who saw her husband together with the girl gallivanting around the island. She confronted the girl who denied everything.  Her husband accused her of being insecure and unreasonable.

The months that followed were filled with arguments as she caught him communicating with the girl several times. It was a very trying time for her as she had to deal with her cancer and the possibility of losing her husband but it was also at this time that she found peace with God.

To make the story short, her suspicions were irrefutably confirmed, they separated and is now in the process of amicably settling their properties.


" And the silliest thing about this doc is that I still love him", she said dryly.

" Have you tried going back to him?", I asked.

 She chuckled. " Although I have forgiven him doc, I can still remember what he did to me. Sometimes, I think that it was my fault having fallen short as a wife with one breast and being bald at that time.  "

" Does he have an Adam's apple Ma'am?"

"Doc?" the question  caught her off guard. " Adam's apple doc? Yes doc. Why do you ask?"

" According to the Bible Ma'am, in the Garden of Eden, there was a Tree of Knowledge of God and Evil. God specifically ordered Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit from this tree but Eve took a fruit and ate it. She then gave the remaining fruit to Adam but before he could swallow the piece he bit off, God came and banned the two from the garden because of their disobedience. The piece of fruit got stuck in Adam's throat thus, the Adam's apple in male."

I looked at her face and saw that she was confused at what this story or specifically the Adam's apple has to do with her husband's infidelity.

" Ma'am, while Eve was able to swallow the whole piece of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam did not."

"Do not blame yourself Ma'am. Your husband did not know better because the knowledge of good and evil got stuck in his throat and he never digested it! "