Thank you, Madam Grace · Unity Grammar School, Lagos

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• Unity Grammar School · Lagos · Nigeria 1999–2002 English literature class

当年的 TA

Madam Grace · 当时大约 38 岁

Our English literature teacher: a tall woman with a laugh you could hear down the corridor, who made us read poems aloud under the mango tree whenever the generator failed.

当年的我

The boy in the second row who always pretended to have lost his textbook.

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I was fourteen and convinced that poetry was for other people. You never argued with me. You just kept handing me a poem a week and waiting. By the end of that year I was reading ahead of the class. I teach literature now, in a small school of my own, and every time a student rolls their eyes at a poem I hear your laugh and keep waiting.

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