The Rooftop

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Toby Hammerschlag. The Rooftop

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To my beloved family

The wrought iron front gates with their intricate flower design were unlocked and thrown wide open to welcome the students. The children who lived in nearby leafy Edgecliff and Darling Point, in plush apartments and luxurious houses, began arriving in the latest models of shiny Mercedes, Land Rover and Lexus, which pulled up smoothly and silently to the front gates. They hurriedly waved goodbye to their mothers in their brightly coloured, floral summer dresses and fathers in their neatly pressed suits. At the same time, clapped out Holdens filled with children came to a stop with a grunt. Jostling children poured out of the public school buses that spewed exhaust smoke into the fresh morning air while the rest of the students came sauntering along with their friends. As the students flooded through the school gates, they became an indistinguishable mass of happy schoolmates.

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“Maha Hamdan,” Maha said softly and did not even look up.

“Now let us start again,” Mr Zulman said. “Let’s climb back into the time capsule and land in the distant land of Egypt all those years ago.”

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