Excerpt from Coffee and a Love Affair: An American Girl's Romance on a Coffee Plantation I have been here two weeks. I am alive. I am well, and I like it. What an experiment it was, though, - my coming! If I had ever, for one moment, thought of myself as an angel, this action on my part would have opened my eyes to the fact that in reality I must be nothing else than a fool. There can be no doubt whatever that this is a case in which angels would have feared to tread; while I - I rushed in as fast as the mule could carry me. I was in Santa Marta, waiting for the banana boat to come in, that I might take passage on it, and return to what the foreigners here call "God's country." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.