I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.

Lawrence Hill
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  1. But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down...

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