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Dickie was a hard worker. As a laborer for a landscape contractor we had hired, he was laying concrete block for steps and planters behind our house. He showed up early every day and worked hard. He spoke Jamaican Creole or patois and a little English, although he understood it well.
Unfortunately, Dickie wasn’t very meticulous about his work. Instead of measuring carefully and setting up guidelines, he worked by eye. After he had worked several days, we noticed he was veering off course considerably. Block rows had rises and dips that became more severe with each added course. This clearly wasn’t satisfactory, ...

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