help you. In my family, we say ‘I wish baboons were on this rock.’ Except that we call them ‘the people who sit on their heels.’ “ “Call who?” “The baboons. I was taught that all the creatures who live beneath the sun are people—like us, but different. It is not a familiar way to think among city-folk, I know, but to my family, especially my father’s family, all living things are people. The baboons are the people that sit on their heels. Surely you have seen them and know it is so.” Renie nodded, a little ashamed that she had only seen baboons caged in the Durban Zoo. “But why did you say you
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