I should have known better than to demand my father stop the car. We were on day one of a projected three-week trip and my father’s much reiterated aim was to check in at the Zululand Safari Lodge before dark. But we’d been on the road for three long uninterrupted hours and I was tired and twelve and willing to seize upon any opportunity to stop, to spend money.

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Little Toki

Colin Oehring

Winter 2015

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