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  • Pick Me Up! Special

    Double blow

    Sep 03, 2020 3 minutes
    WORDS BY LAEA MARSHALL

    Lying in the sun, I spread out on my towel face down, keen to soak up some rays. ‘Who wants to rub my back?’ I asked, gesturing hopefully to my daughters.

    It was 1999, and Kimberly, then 15, and Katharine, 14, and I were living in South Africa.

    My husband Gerard and I had moved there back in 1980 when he got a job in Johannesburg.

    I soon found work as an operations manager, we’d had the two girls, and life was

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