“Why are you going to
Yeoville?”
“To see Trevor’s dad.”
“What? No, no. How can I take
my wife and her child and drop you
off there? You’re insulting me.
What do I tell my friends? What do
I tell my family? My wife is at
another man’s house? The man
who made that child with her? No,
no, no.”
I saw my father less and less.
Not long after, he moved down to
Cape Town.
Abel wanted a traditional
marriage with a traditional wife. For
a long time I wondered why he ever