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TFE have you heard it being said that

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when the last tree dies so does the

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smell GFE tells me that oxygen and

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carbon dioxide are bedfellows in the

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environmental cycle and if the trees

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were before we became then our lives

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depend on it in every way TFE tells me

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that’s a creation recreation and

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procreation

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there is no end until the last tree dies

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GFE reminds me to preserve us hacia

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Mother Earth GFE indeed Mother Earth is

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a beauty Jeffie represented to me a

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woman’s beauty her multifaceted ability

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not only in the kitchen or with respect

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to producing and raising family GFE is

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wisdom symbolized it is womanhood

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dignified for a man gave Joffrey to a

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woman not to patronize sexuality but to

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patronize strength of character

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intelligence decency and modesty it

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appreciated beauty and originality

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carved in varied styles shapes and sizes

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it celebrates a woman’s uniqueness in

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every way for indeed our fingers are not

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the same today dear fake questions my

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values and beliefs as an african woman

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who I am my past my present my future my

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journey my vision my dreams it questions

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my actions

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geography beckons me to higher heights

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Heights that can bring positive

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transformation to my community DfE as an

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heirloom tells me to leave footprints

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that wouldn’t be forgotten not in this

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generation not in the ones after GFE

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tells me to stand with head held up high

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because I am black royalty irrespective

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of my ethnicity for the status of my

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family GFE tells me that life is what I

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make it so today Jeff you may not pick

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my hair our standard core sure it may

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not accessorize my purse

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but today Jeffrey picks my brains today

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Jeffy symbolizes for me aptitude moving

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in the kills and locks of a

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distinguished African beauty today

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Jeffrey represents me so in the olden

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days Jeffy was given to a woman either

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by her father or her husband to

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appreciate her worth or to praise her

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for something that she had done but the

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woman could also request a sculptor to

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make a Jeffrey for her when she decided

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to celebrate a certain period in her

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life

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Jeffrey was made from wood and came in

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different shapes and sizes and basically

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anybody could have a definite and it

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didn’t really matter what kind of wood

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odd really came from it it was all about

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the symbol what it meant to a person and

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so Jeffrey was either used as an

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accessory or as a necessary tool or

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necessary instrument for breathing ones

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hair so today to me Jeffrey tells me

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that there’s no standard for once worth

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I am basically what I think I am and so

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I decide what to make out of life and

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how I want to see myself and that’s what

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Dara is to me it’s a creative power it

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tells me that I am worth what I think I

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am I can create my self and my own

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wealth and my own worst

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you

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