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THE HOUSE THAT GRANDPA BUILT

MY GRANDPARENTS LIVED IN THEIR HOUSE IN PHILIPPOLIS FOR 58 YEARS.

I visited often and despite its National Monument status, it’ll forever be the happy place where I felt safe and loved and valued.

Grandpa built his sandstone house right on the dusty road that ran all the way from Johannesburg across the Free State, past his front door and all the way to the salty sea in Cape Town. We’d visit in the summer. We’d visit in the spring. Pa would drive

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