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A PRECIOUS GIFT OF LIFE

THE two women act like they’ve been friends all their lives. They’re quick to finish each other’s sentences, they interrupt each other to add detail to their story and they hold hands when their emotions get the better of them.

In fact, they met only two years ago –but those two years encompass so much: the agony of grief, the joy of life and the comfort of a friendship forged on the foundations of motherhood.

Anna-Mart van der Merwe (53) lives in the Breede River Valley between Worcester and Ceres in the Western Cape, Lisa Smorenburg (54) is from Riviersonderend in

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