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RE: Walk like a Bermudian

Well, imagine this!! I learned something today ... which I always count as a win. I learned several somethings, in fact, so give yourself a few extra gold stars.

First of all, I would have sworn on a stack of Bibles ten feet tall that Bermuda was in the Caribbean. I figured (all these years) it was next door to Jamaica. (When I saw your photo with the signs pointing in all different directions and saw Jamaica 1237 ... I thought WTF? ... and did some online investigation. God, I love the internet!!)

In fact, I always thought if push came to shove and I had to choose one or the other, I'd choose to go to Jamaica -- which seemed like just a less snooty, more native and colorful version of Bermuda. But they're in two entirely different places, so I have to rearrange my fantasies!!

I had no idea there was something out in the middle of the freakin' Atlantic!! And I couldn't have told you where the Sargasso Sea was with a gun to my head. I know of that from the title of this book ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Sargasso_Sea ---> but I had absolutely no idea where it was.

So, I'm glad I found your post. It actually changed my feelings and opinions about Bermuda. I'm very pleased to have learned something, because being an ignoramus is not how I see myself. I'm feeling pretty good about it all. And I hope so are you.

May your holiday continue to be marvelous!

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Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys. It is a feminist and anti-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his mad wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. Antoinette Cosway is Rhys' version of Brontë's devilish "madwoman in the attic". Antoinette's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to a certain unnamed English gentleman, who renames her Bertha, declares her mad, and takes her to England.