While I Have Pedro

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John Chesterman. While I Have Pedro

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While I Have Pedro

John Chesterman lives in Melbourne’s south with Catherine, three children and Jedi, the dog. The author of several works of non-fiction, this is his first novel.

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I had worked out, thanks to the newspapers and my Diary of Important Dates, what was turning the fire lighter on. He, or maybe it was a woman -because you don’t know that it’s a man, even though I do - was lighting fires when his (or her) Diary of Important Dates told them it was a special day for the place they were setting alight. I didn’t know who was lighting the fires. But I did know why they were doing it. They were just doing things in order. And like Pedro always tells us, you should show people what you think.

Pedro wasn’t at home when I made this discovery, so I couldn’t tell him what I knew. Alfie was there, and he doesn’t understand me like Pedro does. I tried to show Alfie what I knew. I held my scrapbook in front of him and showed him the article about the fire at St Andrew’s. I even said ‘fire, fire’, and he said ‘that’s interesting, Red. Lucky no-one was hurt’. Then I showed him my Diary of Important Dates, which I had open on the week that showed St Andrew’s day in November and he said, ‘Mate, that’s ages away. Let’s live one week at a time.’

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