It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled
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Achmat Dangor3 quotes“It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled”
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