Vevine Goldson was born to a fashion designer mother and a technician father;but was partly raised by her stepfather a world war 11 veteran who was also a priest. When he past away her grandfather came and took her to live with him, her biological father aunts uncles and grandmother.
Academics:
Vevine has scored straight A in all seven academic subjects at an institute for certified book keeping,and earned herself a diploma in fashion designing at a fashion institute;She has also done courses in nursing and introduction to law;she's published two poetry books. She's of Afro caribbean english and scottish descent. Although she's a conservative individual not with politics,but because of her lifestyle and the way she was brought up. She's still a people person,and it reveals itself by the way she writes about others and their achievements.
From 2006 till present vevine spent most of her time juggling between her websites and forums writing;mostly about caribbean,USA,Europe,uk,africa,world news, african american entertainment such as music,cuisine,tv, history, sports,fashion and literature. She's very busy;she utilises her time writing her own literary works,she spends a lot of time trying to perfect her craft while listening to classical music.
She's had her fair share of ups and downs; as with many young adult women getting older and branching out,soon find out that life is'nt always peachy on the other side, when you're ambitious focus and trying to make it all on your own in a new country.
She has been through a lot of incidences that left her stunned up until this very day;severe organized stalking and harrassment by people with unscrupulous characters, which left her deeply traumatised,jealousy,lies,rape threats,wild and unsubstantiated accusations that put her in very uncomfortable and vulnerable position;many near kidnappings,many near trafficking incidences,numorous bank frauds, and even the dreaded rape while living abroad that women of all ages fear. All this took place over the courses of years without her mingling,partying and barely leaving the house. People have even used audio recordings to impersonate her voice to try and frame her. The most chilling is the look on her rapists face,watching him smile and grin while he raped her.
Vevine at the age of thirteen was invited to one of her friend's high school fet;but at that age while under strict parental rules, she was not allowed to attend such events,so vevine told them that she was going to visit a friend,and ended up at her high school party. They partied till midnight and straight back till the wee hrs and then got stranded. Lucky for them it was a quiet wealthy cosmopolitan area,and it so happen that one of the girls familiy were living nearby and they all crashed there for the night. Ofcourse all their parents were panicking and asking around for them.
Vevine during some school holidays,when it was late evening she use to sneak out to play and roam the streets with one of her best friends mark when their parents went napping. Mark was a skinny white boy and he too was sneaking out behind his parent's back,they use to sit on the sidewalks,take the buses to link up with other friends and sometimes end up miles away from their homes,then rushed back home before it was tea-time.
One day while studying in her local park she nearly got kidnapped. Between the ages of thirteen to fourteen she sat in her local park doing her school work,a mulloto man with freckles that was sporting dark glasses pulled up on a bike,a few minutes later a non threatening looking black man joined vevine and started a friendly conversation,When vevine finished her studies he grabbed on to her hands and started to pull her away while shouting to onlookers that she was his girlfriend,his mulloto acomplice joined in,vevine kept pulling away from them;they got frustrated and eventually walked away.
At around thirteen yrs old during a bus strike,vevine nearly got kidnapped, late one evening while waiting on a bus. It was late and dark,and a black man walked up to the group at the bus stop and pulled out a knife,he was demanding vevine the only child at the bus stop, to step away with him;he stood there for several minutes making the same demands,vevine ignored him and he eventually walked away.
During her early twenties,vevine was standing at the bus stop,and a young Iraqi man came up and sat beside her,he told her that he did not speak english very well and was looking for a teacher;vevine agreed to teach him for a small fee per hr;when vevine arrived at his home,he was not interested in classes,he told her he wanted her to spend the night with him.Telling him no,was not an option for him;He got up stretched his hands,clicked his fingers,moved his shoulders around,stretch and clicked his joints and neck;that indicated that he was preparing for some sort of wrestling;vevine pretended that she did'nt know what it meant;she complimented him on his leather jacket;then she asked to try it on,he happily obliged,then she told him to go make her some tea,once he was in the kitchen,vevine kept chatting to him,she took off his jacket,grabbed her belongings, quietly unbolted the door and walked away as fast as she could.
Vevine use to gamble during her pre-teen yrs;she and her sis use to sneak out out of their house to gamble. Her sister use to hang out with a girl that introduced her to poker machines,as vevine was close to her sister,vevine too started to gamble during the school holidays,they got so addicted to the machines that they spent weeks playing the poker boxes.
Vevine was a good singer;and at the age of five to six,vevine use to sing solo at church conventions. The audience were impressed with her singing voice,that they payed to hear her sing the same songs twice.
When vevine was seventeen to 18,she along with some other girls were featured in a dancehall video. People kept telling her that they saw her in a video,vevine never made an effort to see the video. She does not even remember who the singer was,nor what the song is called.
Vevine bought her first plot of land at the age of 20-22;vevine started saving as a teenager and bought her first plot.
Vevine use to dabble with smoking marijuanna;At 16-17 a close friend introduced it to her. Vevine took a short summer course in typing,and she use to hang out with a chinese girl who use to smoke,after class they would head straight to the sea side and spend hrs sharing rolled up joints;but that was her only time,after the summer typing class ended,vevine never smoked another joint.
Vevine recalls showering at three one morning,and it so happened that the window in the bathroom was opened and when she looked up at the window,she was overwhelmed by shock, she remember counting 13 drones hovering outside near the window.
Inspite of all that vevine keeps moving forward,as she's a very focus and determined individual;and has never felt any fear or intimidation when it comes on to doing what she really likes.
But it's not the first set of stalking that vevine has gone through,while growing up as a child and in her early teenage school years, vevine went through narrow escapism of nearly being kidnapped and being stalked.
At around 14 years of age While sitting in her local park studying,a man in dark glasses pulled up on his bike sat there watching her,another one went to sit beside vevine while engaging her in friendly chit chat,but when it was time for vevine to go home,to her shock the man held unto her wrist while pulling her away,telling everyone that she was his girlfriend,the man on the bike turned out to be his accomplice as he too was telling everyone that vevine was his ''friend's girlfriend. Vevine kept pulling away from him until the two got frustrated and left.
Another was at a bus stop one late evening,as buses were on strike it became dark. Vevine about 13 at the time was left stranded with a group of older people,then suddenly a man appear from out of nowhere and stood infront of her,He flicked out a knife while demanding that she leave with him. Ofcourse she did not go anywhere with him.
At eleven years old,vevine have had to fend off three stalkers every morning while going to school,and evenings while coming home from school. The eldest at 19 would stalk her on the way to school, while the others 17 and 18 would be waiting for her to return when they saw vevine they would try to compete with eachother while reciting love verses to her,and that's scary for any child growing up,who just wanted to be left alone.
After getting her hair done,vevine stood outside her hair dressing shop,then suddenly her phone rang;a man told her that he was driving past and explained that he was watching her;he went on to describe everything that she was wearing even down to her hairstyle,and at what time she came out of the hair dressing shop,then after a few more brief exchanges he hang up.
Eventhough life is not all peaches and cream;Vevine has always been an optimist,being a part of the creative industry and doing what she enjoys has helped to heal all the discomforts. Her craft and writing is now her number one priority, it's something that she holds dear,inspired by childhood to adult present and past mostly happy memories.
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