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Maria du Toit

Karoo · b. 1934

AF

"Tell me something about your mother's hands. The smell, the shape, what they did."

I remember my mother's hands smelled of soap and dough. When she hugged me, I always smelled her. Hands that smelled of work, of home.
Sarie Coetzee

Natal · b. 1939

AF

"Tell me something about your mother's hands. The smell, the shape, what they did."

My mother's hands were small but strong. She always smelled of earth and herbs, especially in summer when she worked in the garden. I remember her hands on my hair.