How Being A West Indian Has Shaped My Life

Suicide Vs Sweet

Nicole Maharaj
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readJan 3, 2021

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My parents were both born on the lovely Island, Trinidad, and Tobago. I learned, from a young age, that no food is complete for my parents without it being laced with vast amounts of pepper. For the entirety of my childhood life, my parents always made two separate versions of curry or stew when they made meat.

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Nicole Maharaj
ILLUMINATION

I bleed out my soul in my writing, in these pages you will find poems and short stories fantastical in nature and completely fictional. And some reviews too!