The memory of Kabore Williams

I never forget you

How are you with your family? I hope fine. I’m happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds from BOA ( Bank of Africa ) transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Venezuela, Presently I’m in Venezuela, meanwhile I didn’t forget your past efforts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my secretary in Burkina-Faso West Africa through her e-mail id (vctvc@hotmail.com) ask her to send you the VISA CARD worth’s sum of ($880,000.00 US Dollars) which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this transaction. so feel free and get in touch with my secretary, she will send the visa card to you

Mr.Kabore Williams


Dear Kabore,

Let me start by saying that I loved reading your e-mail. You have such a lovely imagination and you write with such candor that it’s hard for me to admit the forgetfulness of my own mind. To my great regret, I have forgotten you and the actions you speak of. When should this assisting of the transferring of the funds have taken place, dear Kabore? Was it during my yoga-retreat in the hills of Sardegna? Had I taken it upon myself to use great amounts of drugs and black-out and go to another continent to help you carry boxes filled with blood diamonds? Did we speak of hidden treasures and the curves of your lovely assistant during these quests? These things you speak of – The Bank of Africa… Venezuela… – I wish I could say I’m overtaken by a tremendous wave of nostalgia, but it isn’t so. For I do not remember a single thing, dear Kabore. Not a single thing.

Might it have been the torrid heat that prohibited me from storing any memories during this undoubtedly adventurous time? It might indeed, dear Kabore. Indeed indeed indeed…

I do hope you can shed some light on these issues for me, if only to prevent me from questioning my own mental sanity HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

About my family: I am with them fine. Life has thrown its fair share of challenges our way, but with the support of one another I’m confident we can look forward to a bright future. The $880.000 US Dollars that your secretary (what was her name again?) will send our way by VISA CARD, will also be of great help. It’s a lot of money and money is awesome. I use it very often, so it will come in handy. We’re all very excited over here and find it taxing to have to wait for it to arrive. But wait we shall.

Messaging that raunchy secretary of yours shall be my first action after I stop writing this electronic mail. I shall give her all the information required, so that I can finally buy all the Nikes and smartphones and garden appliances that I’ve always dreamed of, even if I do not own a garden. Not yet at least.

Thank you, dear Kabore, for making dreams come true.

Do write again soon.

With love,

Remco

Auteur: RdR

Remco de Ridder (Den Haag, 1983) is een Nederlandse freelance journalist, copywriter, podcastmaker en schrijver. De Ridder studeerde Film Studies aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en screenwriting aan de New York Film Academy. De Ridder werkt sindsdien als freelance copywriter en journalist. Hij schreef een aantal opiniestukken over de ramp met MH17, die werden gepubliceerd in de Volkskrant en Het Parool. In die kranten schrijft hij regelmatig ook over andere onderwerpen.

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