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Richie Innocent The ballad of an old Woman' was perhaps the turning point in the story of a young man's life, a young man who could not read up to grade four. He is Richard 'Richie Innocent' Robinson, the 'DJ Poet' from Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth. Born in Kingston at Victoria Jubilee Hospital in 1973, he attended Chettolah Park Primary and St Anne's Secondary schools in the Corporate Area. Shortly after entering St Anne's, he migrated to St Elizabeth, where he attended Santa Cruz All-Age and Lacovia Secondary schools, and St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS). However, up to age 10, he couldn't read. "I didn't know how to read, I just didn't know how to read, but I could write," he said. This was proving to be quite embarrassing to Richard, so he found a way to keep his illiteracy to himself. He recalled: "Whenever time they would say reading after lunch time, I would hide away from school, school woul