my foster mother Carmelita (Michael Marie) Currie is from Halifax, we spent every summer in Port Morien, a small town north of Halifax on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia was a second home to us

Carm is the third person in the top (back) row here in Nova Scotia, tallest woman in the class, she was almost 6′ tall, very big woman, she towered over and was terrifying to children in foster care. Michael is her birth name, Carmelita is her self-chosen name:

Rita MacDonald and most of this class were childhood friends with Carm.