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Papa

To the back of the house rested the outside
bathroom and separate shower on the right while
the kitchen was on the left.

The kitchen was Tia’s favourite place because
when her grandmother wasn’t in her garden, she
was in her kitchen where salted bits of pig meat
and fat and beef hung from the ceiling.

Held up by the bare earth, stones and pieces of
acacia wood rested her grandmother’s copper
stone for baking cakes of cassava, which she
hung above on a line running from end to end of
the kitchen. From the big shutters one could
watch the coconut trees swaying gently in the
breeze and the dasheen and breadfruit tree.

Tia didn’t remember dozing off, but was
awakened by the driver who landed her at the top
of the road leading to her grandma’s land.
He blew the horn and she left the bus with her
small case.

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