Woman & Home South Africa

Mom hid our HOUSE PHONE where she knew we’d never find it...

When I was 15, my mother received an enormous phone bill. She was a full-time primary school teacher and a single parent, and the bill was horrendous. It was 1980, and it was well into the hundreds.

It wasn’t enough for my friends and me to spend all day at school together; we wrote letters to each other

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