or shouldn’t do. She’d take me to
the ice rink to go skating.
Johannesburg used to have this
epic drive-in movie theater, Top
Star Drive-In, on top of a massive
mine dump outside the city. She’d
take me to movies there; we’d get
snacks, hang the speaker on our car
window. Top Star had a 360-degree
view of the city, the suburbs,
Soweto. Up there I could see for
miles in every direction. I felt like I
was on top of the world.
My mom raised me as if there
were no limitations on where I
could go or what I could do. When I
look back I realize she raised me