And I am connected to the island because where I live at now, I was born there.

My placenta is buried there. My afterbirth is buried there.

So, I am connected.

My grandfather died on that property. And the thing, my grandmother, she tried smoking one time and I said, “Ooh, I'm going to tell papa.” She shoved the cigarette in my mouth. She said, “now I'm going to whip your ass for smoking.” And boy, I coughed and she coughed and she gave the cigarette to somebody, gave the cigarette away.

And she said, I don't see how your papa can do that. And she was always fussing him. He liked drinking moonshine. He didn't drink nothing during the week. On the weekend he drank and he said, woman, when time out, time out, he said, before I go to meet my maker, I'm going to take me a drink.