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My grandmother’s specialty was fufu: pounded cassava and plantain dumplings, which she’d make with a massive, waist-sized mortar and pestle. When I was really little, my mother would take us to visit my grandmother in her tiny village of Brakwa, in a forest belt about 60 miles from the coast. She lived in a small squat house fashioned from mud and cement block, which had no electricity. The drive on dusty, red-clay roads was rough and bumpy.
My father’s military duties made him a sporadic presence around our house. As severe as the black suits he wore when he was out of uniform, he would appear, tyrannize us and leave. He’d rail against my eldest brother, Crosby, his namesake, a bad boy, a smoker. Mina was next in line, a radiantly beautiful junior version of my mother: loving, gentle and kind. Then came Luther, who was my absolute hero, so engaging and handsome, with that same infectious charisma that Crosby has.
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