Chapter 26 - The Ten Children Living Together

I used to sleep with my five sisters. My four brothers slept together. The bedroom had a wardrobe and my parents' bed. The wardrobe had a big mirror. One day, as we were sitting together outside the house, we heard a loud bang inside the house. We rushed inside the house. We found a scared Simon and a broken mirror. We asked what happened. He said he was trying to test his strength, so he sat on our parents' bed and tried to push the wardrobe with his legs. The wardrobe fell and the mirror broke. My father was speechless.
One day, my mother sent me to buy sour milk at a nearby farm. I went with my cousin Christina because she was also going to buy sour milk for her family. We used to eat porridge with sour milk. On our way to the farm, we were playing. When we arrived at Sandown, the farm, we realized that we lost all the money for the milk. My mother had given me twenty pence for two litres of sour milk, and I had lost all the money. We went back using the same route and looked for the money but did not find anything. It was becoming late and dark...

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My younger brother, Mapela Simon Rakoma.
Simon once broke the wardrobe.