This content originally appeared on St. Lucia Times.
A year and a half ago, when Ronetta Billy, 39, first thought about writing a memoir, she was confronted with a past peppered with painful memories.“I started having to dissect the experiences and go back and relive them. It was like a movie being played in front of me and that was the most painful thing I had to go through,” Billy told St Lucia Times, recounting first the initial hesitance she felt towards immortalising her story in print and then the harrowing ordeal that unfolded when she attempted to unearth years of suppressed memories to undergo the task.
