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Our boat needs an honest captain

We all knew that our boat was leaking, but we sailed anyway. We used it to cross a stream in Rest in Peace, a section near the graveyard in KwaThema. Everyone knew that the boat would sink at some stage, and so we called it RIP. Salvaging it and dragging it back on to the bank and draining it became part of the fun.

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