We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations. - Charles Lamb

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South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

Charles Lamb

We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.

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