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Robert de la Chevotiere

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Robert de la Chevotiere is a short story writer, novelist and award winning poet. He has been a public school teacher for nearly 20 years. Originally from the Caribbean Island of Dominica, he spent equal parts of his childhood in Guadeloupe and in Bermuda. He now resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada.

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The Story Behind WE WERE NOT KINGS

For my fortieth birthday, I took a thirty-day long overdue trip home to Guadeloupe and Dominica. I had not been back to the islands for several years, and that trip could not have been any more spectacular. The ability to reconnect with old friends, see family and experience the most beautiful of Mother Nature’s gems, is never something I could take for granted.

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