A Time to Remember.(Short story)

From: Kola | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Goddard, Horace I. | Copyright information

My first recollection of my father was when I was three years old. We lived in a one-room chattel house perched on a hilltop. There was a detached kitchen made of galvanize. The backyard was crowded with goat and sheep pens places for turkeys, ducks and chickens and some rabbits. The arable land, a quarter of an acre, had canes in the middle. Pea trees, grass and guinea corn surrounded the field. Plantains and bananas filled the spot nearest the house.

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