“I asked her why her eyes so big? Why she talk that way. She said because she was a warrior. She couldn’t cry. Then she went out from de meds. That girl was in so much pain, yuhnuh!” Ms. Remah cupped her stomach, cringing. “But she nuh cry for a long time. T’ere was a lion in there. I knew it. Never seen nuttin’ like it. No mada, no fadda—nobody. She stayed in that bed and controlled di pain from wit’in.”
