Dear Mrs Maurice Diya, I searched for you for many years and only recently discovered you passed away nearly a decade ago! I am so sad and sorry at your passing. You taught me history and made me fall in love with the subject, and inspired my career till date. I was a student at Akande Dahunsi Memorial High School, Osbourne road, Ikoyi, when I met you as your SSS2 history student in 1992, and you became a mother and mentor in words and action. You took keen interest in my academics, and my evolution as a person. You had and oozed class and you wanted me to add this to my academic talent. I remember your black Daewoo Racer car and the grace and class with which you moved! I was looking forward to meeting and telling you how well I have done and doing to make you proud of me. I rehearsed what and how I was going to narrate my life trajectories to you, alas this is not to be! I wanted to make you proud ma, and I was looking forward to telling you a professorial chair was nigh! I am sure you are seeing from high above and must be proud, still. My beloved Mrs Maurice Diya, I pray God forgives your sins and grant you eternal rest, amen. Good night ma, and my sincerest condolences to your immediate family.