Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite

Author:Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-25T15:10:11+00:00

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In the age of microwaves and Wi-Fi, electric cars and face transplants, my rational side told me that we didn’t have space for family curses to exist. Still, my grandmother’s words from the diary had stayed with me and I could not forget what I’d read: Yours is coming. Your name may be Dubois, but that Christophe blood runs in you too. Maybe my mom’s had arrived in the form of “amyloid plaques” depositing in the gaps between nerve cells and “neurofibrillary tangles” folding into themselves in those very same neurons. What researchers called a “genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s” could really just be a promise that had lain dormant in her until something, anything, called it out to be fulfilled. While those brains cells would eventually stop communicating with each other and die, the madichon spoke clearly through Mom’s outburst at dinner: I’ve got her.

If I waited, “mine” would creep up one way or another as well. It just needed time. I hated myself for starting to believe it. Throughout the night, the snippets of conversation I heard stayed on this shared family curse. Nancy can’t have dairy because the curse is sooo far-reaching. Jean dropped the fork on the floor and it stubbed his toe? The curse was to blame. Bianca’s car accident? C-u-r-s-e.

That ceremony. It didn’t seem like they had done it right... In the forest, Tati Estelle had hesitated. She hadn’t really drunk from the bottle of rum either. Maybe the family needed a do-over... In my mother’s diary entry, Roseline had said that a curse could be countered with something else, like taking over another person’s mortgage and putting it under a different name. I had nothing to lose meeting with Roseline. I needed to learn more about what had caused this supposed curse in the first place and what it really meant for us centuries later.

I decided then. I was going to look into taking over my mom’s debt.

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