I am really enjoying listening to a book on tape by Sidney Poitier. It is entitled Life Beyond Measure. It is a series of letters to his great granddaughter. It is read by an 80-year-old man named Sydney Poitier, who is now 84.
Mr. Poitier was born premature, weighing about 3 pounds, and his mother got no medical help. They managed to find a mid-wife. Soon after his birth his father brought a box, thinking they would soon be burying Sydney. However, his mother consulted a psychic, who said she need not worry; that Sydney would be known in all corners of the world.
Growing up on Cat Island in a small village in the Bahamas, Sydney did not even see himself in a mirror until age ten, when the family moved to Nassau. He spent his days with nature. His parents grew tomatoes. Though having little or no money, his parents had a wonderful relationship, the most compatible couple Sydney has ever known. Sydney had to quit school to help his parents when he was twelve-years-old.
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I enjoyed his autobiography a few years back. Glad to know he's still writing.
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