'Monsieur,

Due to my indefinite departure from Senegal, I would like to terminate my account with Sonatel. Please sever both my telephone and internet lines with immediate effect.

Yours sincerely,

(Signed)

Rose Skelton'

This at half past seven this morning. Seeing it in words, written in delicate Franco-Senegalese handwriting by the beautiful phone company assistant Safietou, rammed it home with blood-curdling chill that I am, indefinitely, leaving le Senegal.