WeJamaicans.com » jamaican http://www.wejamaicans.com Online Community for Jamaicans at Home and Abroad! Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:56:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Unforgettable: A native returns home to Jamaica http://www.wejamaicans.com/2007/05/04/unforgettable-a-native-returns-home-to-jamaica/ http://www.wejamaicans.com/2007/05/04/unforgettable-a-native-returns-home-to-jamaica/#comments Fri, 04 May 2007 17:55:01 +0000 admin.WJ http://wejamaicans.com/site/2007/05/04/unforgettable-a-native-returns-home-to-jamaica/ by: Lia Thomas

No words could capture the feeling that raced through my body at that moment. The moment when the plane hovered over the lush green mountains of Jamaica. The moment when the ‘love bird’ descended onto the hot asphalt, and bumped its way up to the runway. Only the erratic beating of my heart, and the fluttering of wings in my stomach as the butterflies took off and circled there, could convey the immensity of my feelings, at that moment.

After

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I passed my mother

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