How Do You Mourn a Father You’ve Never Known?

Reconciling with the aftershock of growing up without a dad

Churchill Ndonwie
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4 min readJun 18, 2021

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Photo: Lucas Ottone/Stocksy

My three brothers and I moved from Cameroon to the United States in 2007. We lived with our single mother, who had moved to the States two years prior.

Five people sharing a two-bedroom apartment was not easy. But we made it work and kept the place organized.

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Churchill Ndonwie
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Young Professional living in NYC. Making connections and creating communities through storytelling. Host of City Living with Churchill Podcast