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as proud of speaking it as they did
about speaking English.
Miss Lou was born on September
7, 1919 in Kingston, Jamaica. Her
mother was a dressmaker and her
father owned a bakery. She was their
only child. They adored and were
very proud of her. When she was a to be a teacher, so she, too could tell
little girl, Miss Lou loved listening stories and teach people.
to stories her grandmother and Miss Lou went to school in
teachers told her. She especially Kingston and was a very good
loved Jamaican folktales of Anansi student. The subject that she did
the spider, Duppy(Ghost) stories and her best in was English. She loved
others. She decided that she wanted reading and writing stories to read
