JOY FEELINGS MAGAZINE November issue 2015 | Page 33

her chair a little
when I brought it
up. ‘‘That’s
something I don’t
think I could ever
do,’’ she said.
‘‘Send my only girl
to another random
country to live with
people she’d just
met. It had to be
God that paralyzed
Monica Fenty’s
emotions so that
she’d say, ‘Yes, go.’

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To this day, I don’t
know how that
happened. But thank
God it did.’’
It seemed like some
part of Rihanna still
couldn’t believe
she’d gotten away
with it. I thought
about being 27; at
that age my mom
was still hoping I
might go back to
college and get a
real job.