Chapter 18 In The Life 1

• GRACE COME TO ME in my sleep last night. I feel somebody presence, in the room with me, then I catch the scent of Posner’s Bergamot Pressing Oil, and that cocoa butter grease she use on her skin. I know she standing at the bedside, right over me, and then she call my name.
• “Pearl.”
• My Christian name Pearl Irene Jenkins, but don’t nobody ever call me that no more. I been Jinx to the world for longer than J care to specify. Since my mother passed away, Grace the only one ever use my given name.