While Olive was growing up in Guyana, she did not know that the man she called daddy and the woman she called mom, were not her real parents. The pain of feeling different from her other siblings, combined with the hurt of her husband’s many love affairs and the discovery of being a child who was given away by her mother, changed her. She became a trader, prostitute, psychic and shop owner to both feed her six children and get back at everyone who had hurt her in the past, until something made her change her ways.