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WINNING LETTER

A house and a home

Monica Dawson of Port Elizabeth writes Another year has passed and with sadness and an ache-in-a-deep-place-thatstill-wishes-to-be-fabulous I realise that entries for the Fix it with Flair competition have closed. My humble dream ‘shattered’, I have to admit that having handed a 160-year-old renovated clay cottage over to my family, it is in vain that I reach for national ‘fame’.

With two small, slightly feral farm children

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