“Jessie, he likes you. You and me are all he has. It's sometimes nice to know there's someone who has the time to sit with someone else.”
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Bryce Courtenay,
Jessica
“Well if it's about us, then we stick together. Jessie is us, she's our daughter. I don't give a fuck about what folk say. I come from nowhere, I'm nothing, nobody, but I won't destroy me own. Jessie's not to be tampered with, you hear me, Hester?”
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Bryce Courtenay,
Jessica