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In the Pool

I learnt to swim in my great-uncle Wally’s pool. Uncle Wally had a Cape Dutch house of handsome proportions, filled with large, splendid antique pieces. (He was an antiques dealer and master builder with impeccable taste and style.) Best of all, for the kiddies, there was the pool.

Not many Coloured people had pools in the 1970s, so

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