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Weekly Contest #138
Chocolate Bar in the Sun Pat Spencer My father, Ubaba, worked as a guide at the Ilanga Safari Lodge in South Africa. He left before my sisters and I awakened, but never before tiptoeing in and kissing our foreheads. I would wrap my arms around his neck and wait for the warmth of his love to seep from my head to my toes as he whispered in our native tongue, “Jongani iintombi zam. Watch over my girls.” The times I failed to awaken, I worried how my day might go. That morning, Umama’s voice broke through my dreams. “Get up, my daughters. Yo...
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