My best friend’s wedding
29/05/15
11:58am
I WAS four, so she must have been five when we first became friends one summer. What attracted me to her was the fact that she and her sister owned the two finest tricycles on our road. A gang of...
Trials and Tribulations of a Single Parent
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I don’t know which is worse, the profanity or the diction
“HOW are you, hon?” “Shi.” “Sorry?” “Shi.” “Come again … what do you mean ‘shi’?” “When I say shi, I...
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