Status Updates From How to Say Babylon: A Jamai...

She finished school and returned to Jamaica (could not find a job in the US) to teach while living with her dad and youngest sister. Lidge dropped out of law school and lived with a woman, while her other sister and mom were in the US. She was mad and egged her dad on so he threatened to kill her. She called the police and her brother came and took her and her sister. Her sister never spoke to their dad again.

The old poet kissed her & groped her. She went to the US as part of a young people program and she & her mom for a taste of freedom. They saw her aunt and her husband, who acquiesced to his wife. She saw another way. She eventually cut her dreads and pierced her ears. Her sister got into an American private school, her brother went to colored in Jamaica. At 22 she finally is at school in VT. Mom cut her own dreads.