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62 Fa‘a Fafine Poem Number Twenty In Apia for my accent my friends named me Miss America Until seeing me coming out of the only McDonald’s in Samoa as none of them would eat there the imported prices, tourist brags for my poor habit, they called me Cookie Monster Elder now, a shorter friend calls Granny Tranny to me A name is like a sei, the power flower on one’s ear Maybe someone gives it to you but they are the ones who see it A sei by any other name is a sei is a sei is a sei ...

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