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Happy Birthday George Lamming

One of our most illustrious sons of the soil is celebrating his 94th birthday on this day. For avid readers and even for those who are not, In the Castle of my Skin is highly recommended by the blogmaster. Unlike developed societies, Caribbean people are loath to give acclaim to home-grown literary talent. We thank…

One of our most illustrious sons of the soil is celebrating his 94th birthday on this day. For avid readers and even for those who are not, In the Castle of my Skin is highly recommended by the blogmaster.

Unlike developed societies, Caribbean people are loath to give acclaim to home-grown literary talent.

We thank you for showing that a native of the soil, from humble origins, raised on a tiny island is capable of performing on the global stage with distinction.

Happy Birth Day Sir.

BORN

June 8, 1927 (age 94)

Carrington Village, Barbados

(Born on this day)

NOTABLE WORKS

“The Pleasures of Exile”

“Of Age and Innocence”

“Season of Adventure”

“Natives of My Person”

“The Emigrants”

“Water with Berries”

“In the Castle of My Skin”

Britannica

80 responses to “Happy Birthday George Lamming”

  1. David Avatar
    David

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    Barbados’ most accomplished and acclaimed author Professor George Lamming celebrates his 94th birthday today, June 8.

    Poet, novelist, essay writer, orator, lecturer, teacher, editor and tireless activist for a new world-order, Lamming seemed to have entered the world of Caribbean letters as an elder statesman. Born on June 8, 1927 in Carrington Village, St Michael, he attended Roebuck’s Boys’ School from which he won a scholarship to Combermere.

    There, fostered by his teacher Frank Collymore, publisher of the literary journal BIM, who permitted Lamming to use his private library, Lamming developed a passion for reading and began his literary career as a poet.

    Recommended by Collymore, Lamming at the age of 19 gained a teaching position at El Collegio de Venezuela, a boarding school for boys in Port-of-Spain Trinidad, where between 1946 and 1950, Lamming taught English to young Hispanic students before migrating to England in 1950.

    Lamming encountered England as an already mature and profoundly organic intellectual, whose most vivid childhood memory was of the March 1937 Labour Riots in Barbados, and whose Trinidad experience had exposed him to that country’s poets – Cecil Herbert and Eric Roach – and young nationalistic intellectuals, in those early days of Universal Adult Suffrage, wildcat politics, emergent trade unionism and agitation for social and political reform.

    The depths of Lamming’s understanding of social, political and historical issues were soon revealed in his first four novels: In the Castle of My Skin, (1953), The Emigrants, (1954) Of Age and Innocence (1958) and Season of Adventure, (1960).

    In the Castle of My Skin he presented the plantation as economic, social and psychic structure, locating the Barbadian village in its erased history of feudal serfdom, and recognising the ambiguity of colonial education as an agency of both social emancipation and mental re-enslavement. Lamming’s novels and essays for three decades afterwards would mercilessly scrutinise the new class of intellectual proprietors and overseers produced by that education.

    As the idea of a West Indian Federation took shape in the mid-1950’s, Lamming in 1955 dreamed up the concept of the “New World of the Caribbean”.

    Together with Martin Carter, Wilson Harris, Arthur Seymour and other writers, he celebrated this concept of a new world in four epic radio programmes of readings, in which Caribbean journeys of discovery, migration, arrival, return and reconstruction were recognised as part of the same process of becoming.

    He then infused his next two novels with this spirit of regionalism, by creating in his imaginary nation of San Cristobal, a composite Caribbean state. In Season of Adventure, San Cristobal combines the cultural features of Trinidad, Haiti and Jamaica, while in Of Age and Innocence, San Cristobal is patterned on the histories and racially tinctured politics of Guyana and Trinidad, with their large African and Asian-ancestored populations.

    By means of these two novels Lamming held out to the Caribbean alternative possibilities of redemption and catastrophe, cultural fusion and ethnic fission.

    Lamming divined that true political liberation in fragmented, multiethnic colonies needed to be based on open dialogue, shared experience and communion both between and within ethnic groups; a communion itself that required trust, absolute candour and honesty between the leadership and populace on the one hand, and between the contesting communities in an ethnically diverse society.

    Being both realist and dreamer, Lamming recognised that these qualities of openness, trust and candour had never been permitted existence in a colonial situation, and showed how secrecy and mistrust could generate social and political catastrophe. Lamming has since then remained a resolute, eloquent and probably sad prophet against racism in Caribbean politics; a warner, even in the face of past disasters and present disintegration.

    Lamming has always written and spoken with a sense of mission. Speaking in 1970 on The Social Role of Writers he declared that: “The writer or artist is, in fact, a citizen and a worker; and his social role should be contained in the process of that work.

    “The novelist or poet in such a society would be performing a social role of the greatest importance by writing the novels and poems which he feels he has to write and which bear witness to the experiences of that society at any or all of its levels.

    “A social function has truly been fulfilled if such work helps to create an awareness of society which did not exist before; or to inform and enrich an awareness which was not yet deeply felt.”

    Speaking of his own sense of mission, Lamming defined himself in the same terms that he once used to define CLR James, as “a kind of evangelist. I’m a preacher of some kind. I am a man bringing a message . . . I don’t know what you would make of it.” The novel, the essay, the interview, the conversation, the lecture, the great oration — these are simply the different structures through which Lamming has brought his messages, be they affirmations or admonitions.

    He has delivered his messages all over the world: in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, at the Universities of Texas at Austin, Pennsylvania, Miami where he has taught creative writing or attended conferences; in Australia, Denmark, Tanzania, the U.K., Canada, where he has been on lecture tours; in Cuba, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti.

    He has travelled to all parts of the globe, this youthful veteran voicing his messages with the same sense of mission he saw in CLR James; displaying “this intellectual energy… this enthusiasm… this extraordinary optimism about what you have here and what could be made of it.”

    (Caricom.org)

    Editor’s Note: This is an edited version of a citation for the Order of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) bestowed upon the literary luminary in 2008.

  2. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks Donna for reminding the blog of an important milestone belonging to a son of the soil.

  3. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    The Great George Lamming is one of the two most worthy Bajans to have ever lived. The second would no doubt to General Bussa.

    Lamming to his eternal credit is the only known Bajan who viscerally rebuffed the colonial government of Erskine Sandiford which proposed a knighthood.

    Lamming’s argument was, and is, that he had spent his entire life fighting against colonialism, neocolonialism, imperialism and capitalism making him ineligible for this tainted trinket.

    More telling were the events as dramatized by a vexed Lamming. Those unfamiliar would have presumed that Sandiford’s ill-advised actions amounted to an abuse of his mother.

    Lamming is the only benchmark by which we must be all judged.

  4. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Ase.

  5. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Happy Birthday Sir

    I am proud to say that an academic of your sort has attended my Primary School ….. Roebuck Boys Primary which was located in the heart of bridgetown ……

  6. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Would the contents of these words spoken by Lamming hold any truth or can be applied to the lyrics ofTrojan Riddinn Mix video

    Xxxxx
    Speaking in 1970 on The Social Role of Writers he declared that: “The writer or artist is, in fact, a citizen and a worker; and his social role should be contained in the process of that work.

    “The novelist or poet in such a society would be performing a social role of the greatest importance by writing the novels and poems which he feels he has to write and which bear witness to the experiences of that society at any or all of its levels.

    “A social function has truly been fulfilled if such work helps to create an awareness of society which did not exist before; or to inform and enrich an awareness which was not yet deeply felt.”

  7. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    George Lamming has remained true to the revolutionary/ liberation cause.
    A true Comrade and Revolutionary.

  8. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Pach

    General Bussa was an urban legend…………

  9. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    I read somewhere that George Lamming taught in England, but I don’t know how true this is, but for a man of his literary acclaimed, I do not think that he has gotten the national recognition that he rightfully deserves.

  10. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Dompey

    People like Lamming don’t crave anybody’s recognition.

    They crave the fundamental transformation of our world in favour of the dispossessed, the downtrodden, the poor.

    Recognition, as an etymological, establishment, construct is precisely what he is against with every sinew of his being.

    Your “recognition” is central to the “virtue signaling” respectability ethos which gives a cultural meaninglessness to Barbados.

  11. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    If only…..

  12. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    Given his achievements the blogmaster was surprised to learn he has been living in Barbados very much under the radar.

  13. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    Yes, that is the nature of the man.
    Few know that although he was on the faculty of Brown University, one of the top four, socalled Ivey League, for years Lamming himself never reduced himself to even pursuing a first degree.

    He’s deh only Bajan this writer has known to tell a PM of Barbados to put a knighthood where the sun fails to shine.

    He’s the only genuine radical Barbados has known in this writer’s lifetime. All the the rest always find ways to compromise principles.

  14. David Avatar
    David

    Is this the type of personage we should be showcasing especially during this period? Perhaps not, defiance at the establishment should never be encouraged!

  15. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    D: “Given his achievements the blogmaster was surprised to learn he has been living in Barbados very much under the radar.”

    P: “He’s the only genuine radical Barbados has known in this writer’s lifetime. All the the rest always find ways to compromise principles.”

    why doesn’t Mr. Lamming post on BU, he seems to have no internet profile

  16. David Avatar
    David

    The man is 94 years old. He does not have to do anything more. He has over achieved. It should be up to his fellow countrymen to find ways to recognize him.

  17. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Why is it that the late St. Lucian literary writer, Derek Wolcott has gotten a lot more recognition in the Caribbean than George Lamming whom has received his national acclaimed before Wolcott?

  18. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Derek Wolcott, as I have forgotten to mentioned, won the Nobel Prize in literature ………………………….

  19. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Pacha
    “He’s the only genuine radical Barbados has known in this writer’s lifetime. All the the rest always find ways to compromise principles.”
    Do you seriously believe that ? I am surprised that you consider him more radical than all the radicals we have known and were genuine. To say he is the only genuine one is a bit over the top.

  20. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Skinner

    You may submit your list. Per usual you with exactitude will deny this writer poetic licence to stress a point of endearment.
    But gallop on!

  21. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Dompey June 9, 2021 12:07 AM
    (Quote):
    I read somewhere that George Lamming taught in England, but I don’t know how true this is, but for a man of his literary acclaimed, I do not think that he has gotten the national recognition that he rightfully deserves. (Unquote)
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    There is a primary school (the old Carrington Village Primary) named after him.

    G L is not interested in colonial titles like knighthoods; otherwise he would be wearing one on his hypocritical sleeve like (Sir) Hilary Beckles.

    What about another literary icon Austin Tom Clarke now deceased?

  22. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    For upcoming Independence we can launch a limited line of the Tom Clarke shirtjac?

  23. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Pacha
    No argument sought/ needed. No exactitude offered or intended. I have no list. Just a bit surprised at the comment.
    Nothing further to say, Comrade.
    Peace

  24. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ David June 9, 2021 8:51 AM

    You are dating’ yourself there, blogmaster!

    What about outfitting the ‘working’ ladies many of whom are now the movers and shakers at the very top of the public sector workforce?

    Certainly not in shirt-jacs for “women” in the boardrooms or even paramilitary-looking fatigues for the de facto first female general of pending republic?

  25. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    David,

    I assume you were speaking tongue-in-cheek when you wondered if this is the kind of person we should be highlighting at present and stated that defiance of the establishment should not be encouraged at this time.

    There is never a bad time for the challenge of a thoughtful rebel with a good cause.

    And, I would submit that this time of upheavel is precisely the time to reimagine all systems and relationships – when we have hit rock bottom and only “business unusual” can build us back….. better, as is the current borrowed mantra.

    We are about to become a republic. Again an opportune time to challenge old colonial constructs, our relationship to our government, our Caricom neighbours and the wicked western world system especially.

    It is the thoughtless rebels of the west, those without a good cause, who have prolonged the current COVID crisis, a bunch of airheads led by the airhead of all airheads – Donald J. Trump.

    It is irrational rebellion not rational rebellion that causes problems. Rational rebellion solves them.

    And George Lamming is arguably the most rational rebel we have ever produced.

    Our political leaders, if they are at all serious about taking us forward, should seek his counsel or at the very least, his writings. We have already noted their lack of imagination to see beyond our current confines.

    We need to see the vision first because we all know that without it…. the people perish!

    We need Barbados to stretch itself truly…. just beyond the limited imagination of the colonial-minded.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    @Donna

    Yes.

  27. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/06/09/live-updates-11-plus-exams-general-update-on-education-press-conference/

  28. David Avatar
    David

    Sorry to hear of the passing of Clairmonte Taitt.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    Lamming ‘has claim to be a national hero’
    DISTINGUISHED Caribbean novelist Professor George Lamming could easily be a national hero of Barbados.
    So said Professor Richard Drayton, who was delivering online the 10th Annual George Lamming Distinguished Lecture, organised by the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, on Tuesday.
    Drayton, professor of imperial and global history at King’s College in London, quoted Lamming as saying his generation’s experience was not one of physical cruelty. “Indeed, the colonial experience of my generation was almost without violence. No torture. No concentration camp. No mysterious disappearance of hostile natives.
    “No army encamped with orders to kill. The Caribbean endured a different kind of subjugation. It was the terror of the mind. A daily exercise in self-mutilation. Black versus black in a battle for self-improvement,” the lecturer said.
    Drayton added: “The battles which our creative artistes have fought, against that terror, against that silencing, against that fear, deserve to be recognised as kinds of heroism which are equal to the heroism of the batsmen at the crease, or the heroism of the trade unionist or the heroism of the political leader. These are battles which are fought and won on our behalf.
    “Lamming has as much of a claim to being a national hero of Barbados as anyone now alive,” the professor argued.
    In her opening remarks, retiring principal of the Cave Hill campus, Professor The Most Honourable Eudine Barriteau, described Lamming, 94, as a pre-eminent philosopher of the 20th century.
    She said he treated the Caribbean working class with the utmost respect and philosophical reverence.
    “Professor Lamming forces all those who seek to speak with or on behalf of the so-called ordinary women and men, to confront who we are and what we claim we want to achieve in the Caribbean. One cannot read Lamming and come away feeling smug and self-satisfied.
    “Lamming’s work makes it clear that unravelling what the Caribbean portend is an unfinished, yet emancipatory project. Unfinished because so much of it has been left undone; there is so much more to do,” said Barriteau. (HH)

    Source: Nation News

  30. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    We must do more than just articulate about the needs of the Ordinary man and woman, we must actively work to make sure that he or she transformed from being the Ordinary man and woman to the extraordinary man and woman. Bertrand Russell, philosophized about the Practical man and woman or the man and woman who has little or no regarded, for the development of the intellect because he or she is simply concerned with the basic necessities of life and as leaders we must discourage this kind of thinking because it works against the advancement of our human civilization.

  31. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Note: though we have a tendency to admire those whom have made important contributions in the various areas of life, I often encourage the young people that I’ve met to be the very best of themselves. You want to be the best version of you!

  32. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Bertram Russell was also an unrepentant anarchist.

    Maybe these two should be synthesized.

    Cherrypicking one saying from here and there, from anybody, will never be representative of an entire life’s work.

  33. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ all:

    “Lamming’s work makes it clear that unravelling what the Caribbean portend is an unfinished, yet emancipatory project. Unfinished because so much of it has been left undone; there is so much more to do,” said Barriteau. (HH)

    At least Lamming gets it!

  34. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Today the west indies were bowled out for 96 on the first day of the initial test in Saint Lucia.

    More troubling is the immaturity ot the line up forced into battle.

    The arc of cricket underdevelopment as metaphor for the opposite of emancipation contradicts implied meanings.

    At the centre of this backwardness are Black lackeys in Cricket West Indies who are committed to being led by Whiteness.

    Our cricket has been purposefully laid low by an elitist mindset which could never escape a predilection that displays of power by Blacks over Whites, and other, on the international stage are inconsistent with their world views of subservience.

  35. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Many years ago I had the honor of meeting and sharing a meal with Mr. Lamming. I was awed. A scholar and a gentleman. A supremely confident man. Not one to want or need a British knighthood. I wash him many more years of good health.

    I’ve read some of his works, but shamefully not all. I must do better.

  36. David Avatar
    David

    Found this interesting piece by Lamming.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/24/artsfeatures.poetry

  37. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Cuhdear Bajan,

    I am ashamed also. Read some but not all. Strange how I have not seen them at my branch library.

  38. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Cuhdear Bajan

    Mr. Lamming, taught in England and I would assume at a time when your academic pedigree made little difference, if the Castle of your skin were Black, so I am quite sure the distinguished gentleman harbour some resentment from those experiences in England.

  39. Dompey Avatar
    Dompey

    Cuhdear Bajan

    Sir. Arthur Lewis, had a similar experienced when he taught at Stanford University in the 1960s! He related the experienced in one of his books, in which he stated that his academic pedigree, did not save him from the awful experienced of geographical racism.

  40. David Avatar
    David

    Lamming deserves Nobel Prize in literature

    June 8 marked the birthday of our celebrated novelist George Lamming. Happy 94th birthday to the patriarch of Barbadian creative writers, George William Lamming.
    I will not follow the usual pattern of rehearsing for readers the facts of Lamming’s epic journey since leaving Combermere School at age 18, his long sojourn in Britain, his triumphant breakthrough as a writer with the publication of In The Castle Of My Skin in 1953, his writing of four other novels since then or his myriad other literary triumphs.
    Rather, we are using this space in your newspaper to alert Barbadians to the fact that although Lamming has put Barbados firmly on the map in the world of literature, he has not been accorded the “gold medal” of imaginative writing – namely the Nobel Prize for literature.
    Lamming is the last remaining member of that famous coterie of brilliant Caribbean writers which includes Nicholas Guillen, Kamau Brathwaite, Alejandro Carpentier, Derek Walcott and Vidia S. Naipaul.
    He has produced more material than all of them except Naipaul but he has never been as honoured as they. Yet he has been poet, novelist, essayist, orator, editor and educator.
    His has been one of the most important Caribbean voices of the 20th century and his 75-year career has been spent exploring – both in personal experience and in fiction – the tensions between the idealistic colonised individual and the harsh world of the imperialist “Mother Country”.
    Eloquent voice
    He has also used his eloquent and persistent voice to defend this region’s political
    and cultural sovereignty against the forces of recolonisation.
    All this is known and acknowledged by those of us who have followed his career, but we need to do something about his status.
    We hereby urge the Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture John King to agitate in the correct circles for Lamming to be accorded his due accolade. Perhaps we the ordinary citizens should sign a petition and let Minister King send it off to the Nobel Committee in Sweden.
    Some people might argue that Lamming’s output in terms of novels is “limited” since he has published only four such works, but a perusal of the list of Nobel Prize winners for literature will reveal that at least ten other writers have written as many books as he has done. They include Albert Camus (two), Wole Soyinka (two), Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (three), Toni Morrison (four), Heinrich Boll (six), Selma Lagerlof (six) and Pablo Neruda, three books of poetry.
    Let us start the movement to bring to George Lamming the supreme honour he deserves before he loses either his brilliant intellect or, indeed, his life.
    – Trevor G. Marshall

    SOURCE: NATION NEWS

  41. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    This article by Trevor Marshall exposes the vicious respectability ethos so dominant in Barbados even amongst those on the socalled left.

    For example, Marshall obviously could not have considered that the man from whom these Nobel Prizes were named and funded made his money by selling dynamite to several sides during World War One, was a fervent European colonialist.

    More recently this prize has been most often awarded to people who support imperialism’s projects in our world. The Saint Lucian, Arthur Lewis, “earned” his by entraping African countries into economic policies which caused them to lose billions to European banks.

    And we could go on and on about every award to sellouts in the South, across the board!

    Even the casual observer could discern from the distribution patterns of these socalled prizes that political and other agendas are at play. In fact, the Nobel is not dissimilar to a knighthood or the award of the ownership of major league sports teams, which within the American context stand in for knighthoods.

  42. fortyacresandamule Avatar
    fortyacresandamule

    I am ashamed to say I thought Mr Lamming had joined the ancestors. Castle Of My Skin is the only work of his I have read to date, another embarrassment on my part. I have some catching up to do. Respect and happy birthday to you Mr Lamming .

  43. fortyacresandamule Avatar
    fortyacresandamule

    Black people are only nominated for the nobel peace award. Because we are the weakest people on this planet, naturally we are seen as the peacemaker.

  44. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    What IS it with people and these bogus awards?

    His works speaks for itself. Let his own people recognise him by embracing his work and learning from it!

  45. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Looks like the Walter Rodney narrative is finally being officially corrected in Guyana as per his family’s request!

  46. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/06/11/guyanas-govt-honour-dr-walter-rodney/

  47. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    On the subject of books. Michael Holding has just released one.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/12/black-people-have-an-extra-hurdle-to-jump-ex-cricketer-michael-holding

  48. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    There is a political project being planned in Guyana by the Hindu-fascist PPP .of Jagdeo, aimed at covering up its racist conduct.

    The PPP wants to dismiss 300 workers from the water authority,, the overwhelming majority of whom are Black.. They seek to replace them with Indians as they have a history of doing and have done since de rasssoul assholes in Caricom interfered in the elections to favour them.

    To cover their apartheid policies the PPP is raising the spectre of Rodney as a distraction as they seek to combat complains about their behaviours, as made to the United Nations.

    The argument to be made by the PPP is that the UN complaints are invalid because Walter Rodney, an Afro-Guyanese, is being lifted up. However, Black people in Guyana never had much love for Walter Rodney. They generally thought that he was an asshole, puffed up with a sense that he was the brightest man in the world.

    Wrong on both counts.

    As a youngster Walter Rodney was second to none in this writer”s estimation. However, his family is in no position to ask the PPP government of Guyana to rewrite the clear and true history of the circumstances surrounding his death.

    The truth is settled knowledge. Rodney was trying to overthrow the government of Forbes Burnham and was plotting with a military man who was making a bomb with shrapnel intended to wreak substantial collateral damage.

    Having arranged to test the bomb against the outer wall of the central prison complex it ended up in his, Rodney’s, lap and detonated, seemingly prematurely or at the betrayal of the military Confederates in this coup. Burnham had nothing to do with these events but currently this schema by the PPP could also cause a fissure within the opposition APNU coalition which comprises Burnham’s party and Rodney’s party.

    About this plot to overthrow Burnham, Dr. David Hinds, a WPA member of Rodney’s party, at the time, spent years in jail and has since confirmed these events. Another senior member, of the WPA, we seem to remember his name as Roopnarine, we think, wrote a book detailing events much as we’ve tried to broadly outline.

    This writer accepts the mantel of lacking hope in anything officialdom says to us. Doubled with experience of evaluating such plots, our central position is always to assume that everything is a fecking lie until proven otherwise.

    David, your Caricom leaders, and the Caribbean, have no ideas about the demons they have let loose in Guyana. We trust that should the worse happen those same interfering misleaders will be military targets.

  49. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    A harsh commentary. Will highlight it separately. Did a google of this Roopnarine, he seems to be a significant gatekeeper of information in the matter raised by you.

  50. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Thought there was a trick somewhere. Was not sure about the circumstances of Rodney’s death though.

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