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A long time Portland woman
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dramatic story about how she
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build a better life.
“I Thought I W ouldn’t Tell
It,” by Deloris Dallas is a m em -.
oir o f a hard life and hope.
“This is my first book, which
my daughter encouraged me to
write after the death o f my
m other over two years ago,”
A MEMOIR OF HARD
Dallas told the Portland O b
server. “I am happy about this
accomplishment because it was hard work that she was able to
not easy writing about m yself return to Jamaica, rescue her
children from poverty, and bring
and my ugly past.”
In the memoir, Dallas recalls them to the United States, where
growing up on Jamaica, an is they could be safe. Although
land whose beauty often con she has been scarred, she some
tradicted by appalling moments how beat the odds to build a
in her childhood. From her birth better life for herself and her
in the rural island countryside to family.
Dallas has been living in Port
abandonm ent by her parents,
she faced life-or-death chal land for 25 years. She and her
lenges earlier than most. When husband are foster parents and
she was at a foster hom e farm, have raised seven children of
grownups were often enemies. their own, who all are grown
As an adolescent, they often men and women now.
“I Thought I W ouldn’t Tell
betrayed her trust.
But she remained determined It,” takes you on a tremendous
to learn and grow, which led to journey as Dallas finds out
a flight from her homeland to the where she came from, who she
United States when she was an is, and why she continues to
adult. The journey forced her to believe that anything is possible.
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