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retains a rugged handsomeness that he says makes ladies drool.
Many widows, whose husbands he would have interred, have seen him as more than a shoulder to cry on true to Steve Makoni’s incisive ditty, Zvachonyana.
By his own assertion, Galiao has spurned love and sexual advances from ladies at funerals while discharging his duties as an undertaker.
And, by his own admission, he once fell for the charms of a widow whose rich husband he had buried and kept the affair under the carpet, until she demanded that he moves in to stay with her for good.
“They see me wearing a hat and white gloves while performing my duties and pass remarks that I look like Michael Jackson. I always reply that I do not look like Michael Jackson he is the one who looks like me.
“Ladies love me. I have had to turn down love advances by many ladies at funerals. While others are mourning, others are eyeing me.
“I do not intend to marry a lady who does not have children because she is bound to desire to have children with me. At my age I do not want to deal with nappies.
“Neither do I want to marry a female undertaker because I find it awkward that in the event one partner passes away, the other living partner will eventually bury the other, although it says till death do us part.
“Most women attending funerals find me highly attractive and offer their contacts. Some make sexual advances and even go as far as asking more for sexual favours,” brags Galiao, a veteran mortician.
Born on October 24 1963, Galiao became an undertaker on November 1, 1985 at Mashfords Funeral Services which was later bought by Moonlight Funeral Services.
Galiao is a training manager at Moonlight Funeral Parlour, where he buries between seven and eight people a day.
He has fathered three sons Zaine, Andréa and Storme with his adolescence sweetheart Lynette Makuvuza with whom he separated owing to irreconcilable differences.
Galiao says he is in a relationship with “one special lady” called Venencia (26) whose surname he refused to disclose.
“The relationship is not official because the moment she introduces me to her parents, they will question their daughter’s decision about dating an undertaker.
“When I started dating this girl she did not know what I do because I did not want her to freak out or get goose bumps about it. She eventually found out and she is quite okay with my job.
“We both are still looking for the appropriate time to break the news to her parents concerning our relationship,” he said.
Galiao says he has been in many relationships most of which have been blind dates, where anonymous women throw themselves at him.
“I was once booked in a VIP room at Sheraton Hotel by this wealthy woman who offered me everything under the sun to get me. I do not recall what actually transpired because I was too tired, coming from work and I dozed off.
“We still talk on friendly terms even though she is currently in the United States of America.
“Women call me and tell me let’s meet for dinner or drinks, and when I ask who is calling me and how they got my number, they tell me let’s meet at this particular place I am a lady dressed in a red dress.
“The disappointing thing about blind dates is that some ladies seldom meet the occasion as some ladies are either too young or too old for me.
“You know how hard it is to turn down a lady. God made it that a man is the one who is supposed to woo a woman, not the other way around,” he said.
But has he ever seen a ghost?
“In all my years of service I have never seen a ghost, although I would love to see one.
“It is unfortunate that mainstream cultural beliefs within our society treat our undertaking as taboo industry yet it is a God-given practice and like any profession such as medicine practised by doctors,” he said.
Galiao claims he is getting a lot of calls from school leavers with good academic qualifications asking him advice on how to be undertakers.
He said female undertakers are venturing more into the practice than males because they have a more positive attitude.
The undertaker says he does not encourage his children to venture into his profession as much as Lazarus “Gringo” Boora does not want his child to venture into acting.
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