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The meet up
Meeting Thabo for the first time after those years, gave Mirriam goose bumps. She felt a little bit of awkwardness like a little girl going on a first date. "Thabo", she said with a low voice. "Mirram, is this you, oh!My word, Thabo said with same excited voice. They hold hands for a while until Ntate Mogoadi interrupted. "Yeah!It was a long time since we were at school. Look now some of us have families", he said looking at Seipati and her husband. He knew exactly how his friend felt about Mirriam. Her name would just pop up in their conversations all those years they met as adult friends. Now there he was, standing in front of her. The memories of the past flooded in. Thabo took one stride and grabbed the chair he was sitting on and put it next to Mirriam. He sat and looked at her with a big smile. Ntate Mogoadi asked Seipati and her husband to come Inside one of his huts to get something to drink. "Let's leave these two my children and get something to drink", he said leading the
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