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Remember when ...

It was a typical morning on a normal day at primary school, in Johannesburg – the weather though, a bit nippy.

I warmed my school uniform on the Capil heater. (Who knew that asbestos was toxic? Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why I’m ADD.)

I ate my ProNutro, or it might have been Jungle Oats, or Weetbix, and drank my milk from the bottle that miraculously appeared at the front door

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