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SECOND CHANCE at sight

Tinkering with a car, I admired the vehicle closely.

Look at the wheels on this beauty, I thought.

I’d always been obsessed with planes and automobiles.

In 2011, aged 23, I worked at the engineering shop owned by my parents, Johan and Isobel.

I was also practising to get my commercial pilot licence.

‘I can’t wait to fly and see America!’ I’d tell my roommate, Ettienne, then 23.

In December 2011, a mate suggested we go to karaoke.

Keen, I jumped in the car that evening with Ettienne in the front passenger seat and his brother Francke,

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