Fade Away

Her mother indeed had made the right decision. Hughes’ was very small but there were some pieces of this incident that refused to fade away from her mind. She vividly remembers how he did his best to calm her down. He even went on singing songs in Krio to “screaming, crying five-year-old,” in an attempt to quiet her down. The girl has lots of respect for her and makes it clear by asserting “He was really nice.”