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AN ADOLESCENT IN THE MOUNTAINS:
Summer 1974: A story of Travel and Love LAUSSANE, SWITZERLAND On the railway platform is a young man with dark hair. I always try to avoid contact, but he suddenly speaks. Maybe I will remember one day: was it to me or to the English girl who stood there with her sister and parents? I…
TEENAGE MUSINGS FROM AGE SIXTEEN
Now she knows what it means to feel bewitched and lamed, just like that- as if a magic berry put to sleep everything that is sensible, anaesthetised it and brought with it a euphoric glow. Where does a person start when you feel too happy, too mixed-up to find a start? Let’s say that I…
FROM FIFTEEN ONWARDS
1972January:My sister was by now dating a Pierre N. My mother insisted behind their backs that he must have coloured blood in him because of his short curly hair. This was pure Nazi mentality as well as South African Boer racism. My father resented him because he was not jumping at their every command or…
