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I live in a cottage and volunteer in the village shop.

I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I'm a keen walker, and I love Suffolk's big skies.

I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.

I grew up on a tiny little island.

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl.

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.