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                                                           BACKGROUND   Evelyn. M. Powell (E.M.P.), otherwise known to her colleagues as Pow-Pow), was a lifelong teacher from Port Maria Primary School in Jamaica, who dedicated her life to helping others, whether it was through having that home in the community where a passing homeless person knew he could always stop and get a cooked meal with a tall glass of homemade lemonade – not to mention cake at Christmas time, or empowering an illiterate adult by teaching him how to read and write, or showing such love to her students that many of them called her ‘Mama’ .  Even when her kindness was rewarded with ingratitude, she never wavered in her commitment to serving the community with kindness.  Even though providing this kindness came at the cost of her very...