[FREE READ] Once you get settled in life, it’s a good idea to write to your childhood hero again. Just so he knows you’re okay, says Willem van der Berg:
Almost all the letters I wrote as a schoolchild started that way. I was crazy about cricket and especially about Jonty Rhodes. People even called me Jonty.
But in a small school in the Kalahari, cricketing dreams easily turn to dust. No one called me Jonty any more. Proteas don’t grow in the desert. The rest of Bloem was no different. I quickly grew to like this small city with its platteland atmosphere. One minute I could be at the Senwes Co-op, with its familiar farming smells, the next I could pull into Mimosa Mall to watch a movie or eat at a restaurant.
My father also passed away during this time. He had always enjoyed keeping an eye on the weather, but he never lived to see the autumn thunderstorm that erupted over Bloemfontein the evening of his passing.
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