Thriving in the Care of Many Mothers

Taken from the only home she'd known at three, Rosemary Yvonne had no idea that journey would lead to many homes in villages and cities of Jamaica...to the care of many "mothers" who enriched the constant love of her own mother ...to a stellar education and becoming the first Jamaican woman accepted to England's prestigious Leeds University ...to a position at the Jamaican Mission to the United Nations and a Carnegie Fellowship that continued her journeys across the world...to marriage and life in Trinidad...to the challenge of facing widowhood with two young children and ultimately to happiness in a new marriage and life in the United States.

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Rosemary Yvonne Borel was born and raised in Jamaica and was the first woman to leave her homeland to study in England at the University of Leeds, from which she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. She served in the Jamaican diplomatic service, with tours of duty at the United Nations in New York and in London, England, before settling as a young married woman in Trinidad and Tobago. There, she raised two children and taught high school for sixteen years. Widowed at an early age, she migrated with her family to the United States in 1984. After twenty years employment with the U.S. Postal Service, she retired in 2006, and now lives in the Tampa Bay area with her husband, Charles. Her pursuits include gardening, Zumba dancing, and volunteering at her church and at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts.