A Million Aunties

by Alecia McKenzie

“If you want a woman to be happy for five years, give her a husband. If you want a woman to be happy for ten years, give her a dog. If you want a woman to be happy for a lifetime, give her a garden. Or in my case, a huge park to take care of.”

“The thing with you and your people, Herb, is that you keep on hoping the country will change and that one day they’ll start loving you,” she declared. “They not going to change. So you might as well just live your life—enjoy what America has to offer, and ignore them.”