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...decade ago, Abby Waters, now 46, was a sales rep for a pharmaceutical company in Boca Raton, Fla., and was "totally miserable." Come Sunday night, she would dread Monday morning: "It got to the point where we were just dropping samples at the doctors' offices." That was 1994. She quit her job and wandered around for the next few years looking for a better idea. "You talk about a midlife crisis," she says. She had money troubles; her marriage fell apart. And she turned 40. "My friend called from the Carolinas. I told her, 'I don't want...
Home runs from Schuyler Mann and Steffan Wilson weren’t enough, as the defending Atlantic Sun champion Bobcats downed Harvard 11-5 in Boca Raton on Wednesday...
Behind a 15-hit barrage, the Crimson topped Lynn (21-12) in a slugfest in Boca Raton last Monday...
...some ways, I can understand where my grandfather is coming from. He’s thinking long-term: marriage, the creation of a family, and the preservation of a culture. Even though I’m from Boca Raton, when I think of home it’s not Louis Vuitton bags and sprawling, crowded shopping malls that come to mind. It’s the curried chicken and stew peas dinners and the fact when my mom gets angry her patois—the Jamaican accent—emerges in full force...
...fact is that—unlike my parents and my grandparents—I did not grow up in Jamaica but in Boca Raton. There, we were the only black family in our gated community, and I was one of only a few black students in most of my high school classes. My life has been a compromise of cultures that didn’t always mesh well. Jamaican culture, sometimes to my parents’ dismay, has not always won the fight. I don’t know how to cook the meals that remind me of home...