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Fa‘a Fafine Poem Number Thirteen
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55 Fa‘a Fafine Poem Number Thirteen Treasure Island’s Robert Louis Stevenson spent his last years building a home, Vailima in the hills above Apia In his other travel book, there’s a passage where a young island guy follows him to the forest, and in its dark gives him a carved box inside of which is a smaller carved copy of the box At tea in Apia once, M told me that at Vailima, where she grew up Stevenson kept a house in back where he would meet the island boys he came for at last, home From the sea ...