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RE: Memoir Monday - Week Twelve (5/27 - 6/1)

It would be going on a magical mystery tour through handful of photographs, photos seldom taken other than on holidays.

We had some very special folk living in the town growing up, it was an experience like no other. We made friends with English speaking mostly going to the same schools, churches, dancing or girl guides. Afrikaans were directly next door, across the road, we seldom saw let alone spoke to.

School holidays we did mingle when very young, as we got older this too fell away until our late teens, after school life making our own way with friendships.

Ironically some families of say four children, two went to Afrikaans school, two to English, we only really became friends through being in the same schools together, befriending the English! Both languages officially taught in all schools back then.