WE’RE HEARTBROKEN
Aug 26, 2022
4 minutes
BY MEGHAN LAWRENCE
IT WOULD be hard to find a more picturesque spot. With its rosebushes, trees full of birdsong and sweeping views of majestic snow-capped mountains, the garden on the outskirts of Timaru in New Zealand is spectacular.
But it’s also home to a multitude of sorrows.
Next to a pink flowering shrub and a tree in the memorial garden at Salisbury Park Crematorium is a plaque. “Gone too soon,” reads the message inscribed on it, which is accompanied by a picture of three young girls on a slide.
Their faces would be instantly recognisable to many South Africans: they’re the three
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