Those in the picture (from left) are your father Tony, your mother Eve, Tony Levy, (then two men students I can't identify), Glenys Harrison (as she was then), Paddy Roome, and myself (John Patten). Hi Philip! I'm in California looking after the grandchildren for a few weeks. Not too effectively, I think, as my grandson fell out of an apple tree yesterday and broke his arm! I remember we all went on the big protest march against apartheid, starting at Wits and winding down into town. All the policemen turned their backs on us. We didn't have any idea at that stage how bad things would get. We often went to parties together , or out on picnics. We just discussed everything going on in our lives, politics, courses we were taking. I don't remember any specific words, except once, when we were all in the car ready to go on a picnic and already late, when Tony said he had forgotten the bottle opener, so got out of the car very slowly a...
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