My Brother's Keeper

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re, Katrina should not have been left alone. Naomi asked the nurse for a couple of blankets, one for Katrina and one for her: the AC was booming in this room. She had earlier

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ential for financial gain for the content creator was enormous, and Black content creators were highly upset, as society, specifically White society, was again finding ways to short shrift Black people, ostensibly with the assistance of

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ng and, to her, had never done wrong. A quiet man, Brent had quietly moved from Puerto Rico in the seventies and

ough she might not have been a supermodel, she had all the qualities of a good wife. She cooked decently, if a bit blandly, she cleaned like a demon,

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erson you were dealing with. Brent's first two children with Myra were sons, Naomi was the third, followed by another girl, the baby. Due to health concerns, Myra stopped having children. Settling in New Jersey exposed all of these children to

e he was part Hispanic? His children were his world. When the cultural assimilation began though, Brent was open-minded enough to just watch it happen and give advice or counsel when he saw his own kids getting out of hand, or when they needed him but were too proud to ask. Or even when they needed punishment. And out of all his children, Naomi was his favorite, the fir

e latter even more. Brent would always send Naomi money secretly, her and her junior sister, Myriam. He had named Naomi after hi

d during the video call, smiling through what was sure to have been painful coughs, though at the time Naomi didn't know, it seemed as if her

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ht loss, gross loss of appetite, difficulty breathing, difficulty sleeping. Brent's time was fast ap

baby, Myriam, was in Florida and would also be along this weekend. Naomi tried calling Branson but it went to voicemail which meant his phone was off, which in turn meant he was still on Roosevelt Island. S