LOS ANGELES, Ca., 08/17/2013 - If you count wealth in cash, Emelia De-Four has never been rich. In Trinidad and Tobago, she got in three years of school before her mother died and she had to pick coffee beans to help support her 15 siblings. In time, she married and gave birth to 14 babies of her own. Three died young, and for the 11 who lived, she sewed flour-sack clothes, which she washed in the river, using corn cobs to scrub out the dirt. Parents and children slept together in one big room, on mattresses made of rice bags stuffed with grass clippings collected from the side of the road. If the family ate meat at all, it was on Sunday and it was chicken, fetched from a dumping ground where the poultry plant tossed its sub-par carcasses. De-Four, now a widow, came to America when she was 60. She turned 99 on July 20.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 10:49:12 +0000
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