Remember WHEN

Your past can be a happy sunbeam, but there is always room for a bit of reinvention, writes Lorraine Kearney

one more thing My mother is the oldest of her siblings still alive (of my father’s family, there is no one of their generation left), and so she is the keeper of the family’s stories. It’s not a job she chose. If she could choose, she would operate a wrecking ball. Or one of those fantastic machines that squash cars like ants. Sometimes I worry about this. But however unwillingly, she is now the family historian. It is a responsible job; you need to hold all the tales in your head, and to pass them on to the next generation. It is, after all, only through your family’s tales that you can learn about your heritage. Sure, the papers and official documents survive, and genealogists spend painstaking hours searching for…

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Woman & Home South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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