Gifty said, “my teacher gifted me a bottle from the back of her storage closet.” (Gyasi, p. 32) Her teacher was experienced and knew that some parents would not be providing a bottle oof corn syrup for their child’s science class experiment. She bought and kept spare bottles in her storage closet, for the purpose of gifting her students who needed these.

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