and pick berries from it, eating as
many as they could and filling up
bags to take home. They would all
play under the tree together. I had
to play under the tree by myself. I
didn’t have any friends in Eden
Park.
I was the anomaly wherever we
lived. In Hillbrow, we lived in a
white area, and nobody looked like
me. In Soweto, we lived in a black
area, and nobody looked like me.
Eden Park was a colored area. In
Eden Park, everyone looked like
me, but we couldn’t have been more
different. It was the biggest
mindfuck I’ve ever experienced.