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CHAPTER EIGHT

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nstead of figuring out a way for me to attend high
school, they sent me away to stay with some

people — as what was called a schoolgirl. They

were the people who started the very first bus company
in Mandeville. I was supposed to work for them during

the day and go to school in the evenings, but they
wanted too much from me and never sent me to school.

So, I ran away, came back home, and returned to school.

The teachers must have seen my potential because they

gave me another chance to do after-school lessons
again. But when I told my parents about the second

opportunity I got at school — because my dad was so

bossy and my mother had little or no say — he took one
look at me and said it again: “Nope. Never going to

happen. So, stop bothering me.”

I was so hurt, I wanted to die.

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