All it takes is a spark
Nov 25, 2019
5 minutes
ILLUSTRATION DIEK GROBLER
What’s the most trouble you’ve ever found yourself in? Mine is the time I caused a fire that almost reduced a town to ashes – a conflagration in the middle of the busiest weekend the place and its residents had ever seen.
But let me start at the beginning. About 15 years ago, not quite burnt out but with wings singed, I left the city and limped into a Free State town to find a quiet place to lick my wounds and wait until I could face life again. This is what dogs do, and people who were born When retreated to a small Free State town to lick his wounds, he hoped to reignite a spark in his life, not to set the place on fire. ILLUSTRATION DIEK GROBLER in the Chinese Year of
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