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“I started to feel a little defeated, like what am I even doing here?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
"I'm a Trinidadian and so it all started there and it was the Trinidadians who came, who were part of the Windrush generation who came and brought all the art and culture here," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The fire, which is thought to have started following an electrical fault involving a battery, caused extensive damage to the property, particularly in the kitchen where it had been left charging.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
It all kicked off two years ago, when she "started doing politics in my mom's bedroom with a cell phone," one Instagram clip recounts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
The women picked up their straw pallets from the floor and piled them in a corner, raising a fresh storm of dust which started me coughing helplessly again.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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