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I DO APOLOGIZE TO G.SIMON! BUT I MAINTAIN MY NOTES FOR WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. FIRST OF ALL, WE ARE NOT REALLY FROM JACMEL. WE ARE FROM THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAINS BEHIND JACMEL. WHERE MY MOTHER CAME FROM, YOU HAVE TO WALK 2 HOURS AND 45 MINUTES TO GET THERE. THERE IS NO DRIVING AND FORCING A HORSE TO GO THERE IS REALLY A CRIME. AND THIS IS WHERE I WAS BORN ON A SATURDAY NIGHT, THERE WERE NO DOCTORS AND NO HOSPITAL AROUND WHEN I WAS BORN.ACCORDING TO MY MOTHER,MY FATHER WAS ATTENDING A SEMINAR IN EUROPE, HE SAW ME 4 DAYS LATER AND THEN TOOK ME TO PORT-AU-PRINCE TO SEE A DOCTOR. WHEN I MENTIONED THAT YOU DID NOT HAVE THE CHANCE I HAD,I WAS REFERRING TO THE FACT THAT I HAD A CHANCE TO KNOW ARISTIDE WHEN HE WAS NOTHING THAN A PRIEST ACTIVIST IN ST JEAN BOSCO. I WAS A HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVIST AND A MEMBER OF THE "MERGE". I WAS RECRUITED WHILE BEING A H.S.STUDENT AT "ST LOUIS DE GONZAGUE" AND IF YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN HAITI IN 1985 PRIOR TO "BABY DOC" DEPARTURE, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS. IT WAS THAT TIME WHEN THE"TONTON MACOUTES" WERE LOOKING FOR US DAYS AND NIGHTS. AND ONE OF US, A MEMBER OF THE SAME GROUP WAS EXECUTED AND I AM VERY SUPRISED THAT ARISTIDE NEVER TALK ABOUT HIM IN HIS POLITICAL SPEECHES WHILE BEING PRESIDENT. AND THIS SAME YOUNG MAN WHO DIED FOR A GOOD CAUSE(7 FEVRIER 1986). HAD A SISTER WHO IS NOW A LAWYER IN HAITI. SHE WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB IN HAITI AND HAD CONTACTED ARISTIDE MANY TIMES BUT ARISTIDE NEVER DO ANYTHING TO HELP HER OUT. THIS IS A SHAME. I STILL REMEMBER WHEN THESE "TONTON MACOUTES" BROKE IN OUR MEETING. WE ALL FLED(INCLUDING ARISTIDE),BUT MY FRIEND COULD NOT MAKE IT. HE WAS EXECUTED.TODAY,I AM VERY SURPRISED THAT ARISTIDE DOES NOT REMEMBER HIM. ARISTIDE KNOWS MY FATHER VERY WELL, AND MY FATHER HAD INTERVIEWED HIM MANY TIMES BEFORE HE RETIRED LAST YEAR FOR A BOOK HE IS CURRENTLY WRITING ABOUT HAITI. FROM THESE NOTES, ARISTIDE WILL KNOW WHO I AM. BUT I HOPE HE DOES NOT REVEAL MY IDENTITY.
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RE: On A Positive Note - Part 5 Of 50 - By G. Simon