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    PARADISE ISLANDS

    Aug 20, 2019 4 minutes
    as told to Ashlea Halpern
    PHOTOGRAPHS BY
    MELISSA ALCENA

    I WAS BORN and raised in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. Art and fashion were always important to my family.

    My dad painted and drew as a hobby, and my mom ran a sewing factory. Every day after school, my mom or dad would pick me and my older sisters up and take us to the factory.

    I was eight years old when I made my first dress. I used a heat-press machine to put a tiger face decal on the front of it and gave it to my sister,

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