| - If You've Lived Where I Have Lived (by Kanako)
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- If you've lived where I have lived,
- you'd see what I have seen,
- the waving lanky palm trees,
- the wide brown Saramaca River.
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- If you've lived where I have lived,
- you'd taste what I have tasted,
- the sweet squishy papayas,
- other tropical flavors dancing in your mouth.
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- If you've lived where I have lived,
- you'd smell what I have smelled,
- the smell of Fernandes bread soaring like a bird,
- the smell of people cooking different dishes.
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- If you've lived where I have lived,
- you'd hear what I have heard,
- the mighty choir of toads in the rain,
- the waterfalls racing between the rocks.
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- If you've lived where I have lived,
- you'd see the beauty of it.
- You'd see why I love it-
- Suriname, my home.
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- Kanako is an 8th grade student at the American Cooperative School (as of the 2001-2002 school year)
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