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DUE SOUTH OF COPENHAGEN
By MARK WINKLER Umuzi
Maximilian Fritz, editor and owner of small-town newspaper The Lowveld Mirror, receives a letter from Denmark. It’s from Freja Casperson, cousin of his boyhood friend Karl Udengaard.
She tells him that Karl has committed suicide and that she lives in a village “two days’ brisk walk due south of Copenhagen”. The letter brings back old memories of how Max as a 12-year-old was bullied until Karl, who was
