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Article: Sweetened Condensed Milk.(Short Story)
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- Highlights for Children
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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Ishmael lived in Missouri with his mom and dad and little brother. They had lived there for years. It was home. It was the only place Ishmael could imagine feeling homesick for.
Then one summer Ishmael went to visit his grandma. She lived in the West Indies in a country made up of two islands called Trinidad and Tobago. His mom and dad and little brother went along, too.
First they drove a hundred miles from their house to the airport in St. Louis, Missouri.
Then they flew to Nashville, Tennessee, and to Miami, Florida, and to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and to Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Ishmael had been born in Trinidad, but he had moved to ...