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Second chances
Home South Africa
|July 2022
If reincarnation was real, Karin Brynard muses, how would we use it?

"In my next life," I hear a young boy declaring, "I'll be a Spitfire."
"Say what?"
It's his oupa asking. The two of them are sitting at a small table in a coffee shop in town. Oupa is nursing a cappuccino, which sticks to his moustache, and the youngster a pannekoek and milkshake.
"A Spitfire, Oupa," he repeats, "a fighter plane."
"It's a machine, jong. You must be a living thing."
"But Oupa, you said you'll be a bull... um... dozer?"
Oupa laughs. "No, man, a bull. But you could be a dragon, you know, one spitting fire."
"Yessss!" They toast each other like conquerors.
I'm at a table close by, wondering about their unlikely topic of conversation, until I notice the bevy of beauties at another table. There's life in the oupa yet, I decide.
Nursing my own cuppa, I think to myself: it's such an intriguing thought, though, a second life. Outside, there's a cold rain sifting down onto white gables and naked oaks - winter in Stellenbosch. A forlorn-looking pigeon is trying to find shelter in the bare, rain-blackened branches of an oak.
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