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I then went in my room and changed my clothes, and I put on a blue shirt and a black pants, a black pair of boots, and I headed for the airport. I had my passport and my travel ticket with me. When I took off the
clothes. I had cn when I came from Miss Evelyn shop, I
put the shirt and pants behind the toilet and I packed
my sneakers in a shopping bag. I left the shopping bag
in my room on my suitcase. I did not take a bath. When
my sister saw me leaving she asked me where I was going
and I said, "Didn't you tell me that Immigration is after
I went down to the roadside and I caught a ride with two white people to the airport. I did not pay them, I had around seven to eight dollars and about fifty cents
in silver. I reached to the Beef Island Airport around
minutes to 10.00 a.m. I went to Prinair's Office and
made reservation.
me?"
A tall black girl attended to me, I
do not know her name. She told me that I had to pay her $2.50, but I do not know for what, and I paid her. She still has my $2.50 and my plane ticket. I went to
the Bar at the same airport and I called for a strong bacardi drink with coke and I got a strong one. A red
skinned girl served me. After I took the drink I was
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feeling like I was going out of my head. I went back
to the Prinair office and the girl there told me that I
could not leave. She said the plane was full and there was 25
no other flight. I then walked over to a part of Beef
Island where I had worked before with Obel Penn. I met
people in the house and I asked for a drink of water and
they gave it to me. They were white people. I then saw
a grey jeep with an immigration fellow and two other
people in it, and the immigration fellow called me and
I ran in through the bushes.
This was around 3.00 p.m.
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