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"Why do you stay?" Pieter asked, his city-voice finally cracking. "The world has moved on. The laws have changed, the maps have changed, but you sit here in the dust."

For three days, the three of them moved through the old house. They didn't pack boxes; they exhaled history. Pieter found a cracked mirror and saw a stranger; Hennie found an old photograph and saw a king. athol fugard

Pieter looked at his hands, clean and soft. He picked up a handful of Karoo red earth and let it sift through his fingers. It stained his skin. "Why do you stay