1. 8 Jun


    472 Zarah is the youngest of my late cousin Neil and Sandra’s (#471) three children.  She’s eleven here.  She was really young when her father died - I wonder what she thinks about when she thinks about him.  Her middle name is pronounced the same way as my younger daughter’s first name, but it’s spelled differently.  It’s a middle eastern name, popular in predominantly Muslim countries.  My wife and I couldn’t care less about that - we just liked how it sounded.  She (and her siblings, of course) are a black/Indian racial mix; the Trinidadian term for such a mix is dougla.  I wonder if that’s now considered derogatory back in Trinidad.

    472

    Zarah is the youngest of my late cousin Neil and Sandra’s (#471) three children.  She’s eleven here.  She was really young when her father died - I wonder what she thinks about when she thinks about him.  Her middle name is pronounced the same way as my younger daughter’s first name, but it’s spelled differently.  It’s a middle eastern name, popular in predominantly Muslim countries.  My wife and I couldn’t care less about that - we just liked how it sounded.  She (and her siblings, of course) are a black/Indian racial mix; the Trinidadian term for such a mix is dougla.  I wonder if that’s now considered derogatory back in Trinidad.

     
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