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My father habitually brought home anecdotes from duties quotidian. When he was in his eighties he sat down on a bus next to a small boy wearing a SACS school uniform in Newlands. I used to go to SACS when it was still in Sea Point, he told the boy. Oh, said the boy, you must be in the history books. I’m beginning to feel that way myself, said Mary. I like this one. My parents look like a couple and there is my sister, my sister Martha as a baby, with them: The perfect trio, an embryonic triumvirate.The TriumvirateHere’s another one of my sister, my Big Sister Martha and I together. It looks as if even then I didn’t relish the idea.What could be more of a sign for Mary thanVirgo linked as it is to Pisces, the fish? Martha, her sister Martha, too was Pisces. ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞After that meeting with destiny in the Maths seminar, I went to the South of France on my own for Christmas, said Mary. I wanted to visit the Camargue. It was a distinct pull, something more than the wildness and the white horses that had always captured my imagination. My mother had sent me dried fruit and a Christmas cake baked in August to give it time to cure – reminders of home. Her love-