Asked her name when she was small, she would reply ‘Aya Wose’. Years ago I put together a book
recording her life alphabetically with pictures and words
Perhaps ‘Aya Wose’ might become an endearing nickname…as soon as she was able she insisted on Haven Rose…and so it is
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The book stays here for now…in her daddy’s boyhood room…read occasionally to her little brother.
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I should have seen it coming: ‘where is the book about me, Nona?’ asks Curren Ivor…and now I have Elin Mae……….
original drawings by Roxanne Mattinson
Susan Wennerstrom | W designs 