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Sia Figiel
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We got the TV from New Zealand via my grandmother’s brother’s son, Masapati, who brought it from an American family who lived...
Fiafia and Faanoana—twins who were six months older than me, and who never spoke to me directly, but teased me about bringing leftovers to school and wearing panties with the Dunlop tyre tuber waist and that I peed in bed until I was nine—suddenly gave wide smiles whenever we met. The kind of smiles you see at stores on Santa Claus at Christmas, or on the side of a box of toothpaste. They would offer a sharpener to resurrect the eye of the pencil.
In addition, they invited me once to sleep over at their house and offered me the cleanest and prettiest sheets, the biggest pillow with ‘Jesus is the Reason’ pillowcase. And I was allowed to use the Palmolive soap first before they washed their hair. This was a luxury, for my family washed only with Fasimoli Ka Mea, laundry soap.
Their mother asked me that night, if I could ask Pisa to send someone over when Fantasy Island came on. I told her that I would, and that I would run over personally, and that she should stay also for Days of Our Lives.
Everyone was too excited the night the TV arrived. We all knew its history before we even saw it: that it was an American TV bought from an American couple by Misipaki and that it was arriving here to make Malaefou history.
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