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Mrs. Tabitha Munuo, born 1911(?), is a fixture of the neighborhood. The matriarch of the Munuo family who live in the house across the street from mine, most afternoons she would sit in front of the house in her white plastic chair. I always called her "Bibi," which means "Grandmother," and I would greet her in her tribal language, the Machame dialect of Chagga, as she taught me to do.