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Annie John

by Jamaica Kincaid

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"I swear all Caribbean people lived the same childhood in a different font

I feel like I’m reading lost childhood memories of mine" — Sep 26, 2026 12:55PM

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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

tags: independence, self-reliance

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