Outside the frame... the clock on the wall that can neither be seen... nor heard... is ticking her time away.

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She'll sit soaking her poor, cracked and calloused feet, in a large white enamel basin in my pee ... my pee that she has been carefully storing in a bottle during the week. She believes (like other West Indians) that child pee has special healing properties ... it's also less smelly.

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"It" speaks of watching your step and being on the ball, while trying to get a foot in the door and keeping a low profile... and "Doing as The Romans When in Rome".

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Late at night, comes a quiet knock-knock-knocking. The stranger on the other side says something like, "I have come with news from Jamaica."

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Culture Shock!

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Notes go hereBorn 1904, in the rural region of Saint Andrew Parish ... a donkey ride from the Blue Mountains where (believe it or not), snowflakes occasionally fall on the highest peaks.

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