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Going Nuts!

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I took my first bus ride at my very big age on the weekend. OK well, locally I suppose, because in high school we took a bus to SA on a school trip, another on a Geography trip around Egypt.

In varsity in CPT I took the bus a couple of times. Also in Manchester after Aunty Happys wedding, her boys got us on a bus after a relatively debaucherous night to see more of England. It’s not that I have anything against buses per se, but perhaps just an unwarranted anxiety.

I took the Gabs/Ftwon bus in order to connect and transit to Mambo in a rental car to bid farewell to my friend Shatiso a.k.a Losso, a.k.a Skilly. Man oh man, we have lost a good one, it is so surreal. I got on that bus without batting an eyelid to go see him off at his final resting place. #AGentleGiantHasFallen and will be missed by multitudes and never forgotten. Condolences to all of his family and friends. May God comfort us all during this trying time. The circumstances are what they are, but we take solace in Skilli having brought us all together for all times sake.

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