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davidjana
Joined 2011
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8 years ago

Life on Caye Caulker, Belize

8 years ago

Young local woman on Caulker with a family who works near our apartment and we have made friends with was telling me about her life here in Belize in some depth and it really touched me deeply. She grew up on the mainland. When she was about ten, she said, she was playing with another little girl her age when she noticed that the little girl had a silver, heart shaped locket around her neck that looked just the same as her own. She asked the little girl about her locket and the little girl said that her daddy had given it to her a long time ago and that it had a picture of him inside of it and that the only time in her life that she had ever seen her daddy was the day that he had given her this locket. The little girl explained that she looked at it often and wished so badly that her daddy was in her life. My friend here then asked if she could see the picture and when she showed the picture it was the exact same picture that was in her own locket that she wore around her neck.

She didn't tell the little girl that it was the same picture. I asked her how that made her feel and shedding a few tears even now, she said that she cried and cried. “My dad all he does is torture me my whole life and I wanted to tell that little girl that I wish he was with you, too! But I didn't say anything to her. I thought it would hurt her too much.”

Which I thought speaks to her integrity as a person to grasp such a thing at such a young age and care about that other little girls feelings. Never having had a father, I understood all too well. She seems to love her husband very much and he seems to be a good man, too. Mostly it made me think that we all no matter where in the world we are from have more in common in our humanity than we have in distinction through our differing cultures only perhaps our “humanity” is something a little more subtle than our cultural differences which are more easily observed superficially.

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