Dreaming of Light

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Jayne Bauling. Dreaming of Light

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

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Dreaming of Light

Jayne Bauling

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It feels strange to be saying my own name. I can’t remember the last time anyone asked me for it. I sometimes feel as if I don’t really exist. When I’m not down here, I’m like a ghost. I keep away from crowds and trouble and the sort of people who want things like names and pieces of paper and bits of plastic. I have no documents. When I’ve been home to Swaziland, I’ve crossed secretly. The first time, I was hungry to be inside my country, so I went over just along from the Josefsdal/Bulembu border post, but then it was a long walk home through difficult veld. By the next time, I knew my way to a crossing nearer the Jeppes Reef/Matsamo post.

“Regile.” My name sounds even stranger spoken with Taiba’s accent. “You say to me you are . . . trafficked? Stolen? But now you go home to your country? Your people, the mother, the father? What they say?”

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