| By Javone VickerieHaving scored an impressive 102 in the game of life, former miner and farmer Gladstone Mack, popularly known as ‘Brother Mack’,Nike Schuhe Neu Damen, says that he has a lot to thank the Creator for as he spent his birthday yesterday, reflecting on a troubled, yet successful life.Considering himself the number one fan of American TV show ‘Judge Judy’, Mack told the tale of his uneasy childhood, living with his stepmother and father in Aurora, Essequibo.“After my mother died,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, my father took another wife and she did not treat me nice at all… at one time she had me sleeping on the ground,” Mack recounted.102-year-old Gladstone MackHe said that he never knew his mother.Mack told Kaieteur News that despite the odds he faced living with his stepmother, he had to still manage to dwell and respect the woman who made him feel unwanted.After a few years living under his parents’ roof, Mack said that his father passed away and he found himself under the control of his stepmother.“After the death of my father I had a harder time,NFL Jerseys Cheap,” Mack reflected.After graduating from school at the primary level,Wholesale Jerseys, he worked at a factory in Essequibo but was later moved to Georgetown with an aunt.“While at work,Wholesale NBA Jerseys, a man came and asked for me and he tell me he was from Georgetown and they were doing some work on a stelling, so I came to the city to work,” Mack recalled.He later took up residence with his aunt whom he said “treated me special” before he departed to work the interior.After spending a number of years working as a miner, ‘Brother Mack’ said that he gave up the mining trade, bought a house and returned to Essequibo, where he lived with his loving wife and nine children.Mack said that his farming business flourished and profited him.“Dem days provision was very, very cheap…We use to pay fifty cents for a bunch of big plantains; nowadays you got to pay over one hundred dollars for a pound. Times really change,” the centenarian said with a smile.Mack said that the transformation from working in the interior to becoming a farmer was not difficult,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, and he became capable of taking care of his family.“I was able to send all my children to school and take care of my home being a farmer, so it was a profitable change.”Mack became emotional when asked about his wife who passed away three years ago.“Every time I remember my wife I cry, because she was good woman to me and a great mother to my children,” Mack said.He remembered that he first fell in love with his wife, Viola, when he was 24 and she was 18.“We were neighbours and I used to see her everyday and talk to her till eventually her mother began to favour me,” the man said.It was three years later that the young couple decided to tie the knot and they spent sixty fruitful years together.“We been in our house and the neighbours dem could tell you that they never heard us arguing. She was a woman of understanding and she knew me better than anyone,” Mack said.Brother Mack’s children have planned a family reunion at their lot 11 Block ‘E’ South Sophia home tomorrow. |
