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P.O.W.
Started me writing. It is a story I have told endless amounts of times
to people who were curious as to how us Forleo's came to find ourselves
in South Africa. Whilst laying on the beach one hot summers day, not
far from where the second part of my story unfolds; I decided that
one of my New Years resolutions would be to document this story. It
was to be something to dedicate to my late father and something for
my grandchildren too. Once I began writing I felt transported, I felt
as if I were just the 'machine', tapping away at the keyboard, and
that the one telling the story, was in fact my dad. There were times
that I would come round and discover that a tear had rolled down my
cheek. Other times, I felt my dad at my shoulder.... So this is just
as much his writing as it is mine.
The following stories where to prove to myself that in fact there
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POW
(Prisoner of War)
A true story, which reflects a chapter in my
fathers' life, at the tender age of twenty-seven, when he
was taken prisoner of war in North Africa and little did he
know that this would be the turning point in his life. The
story has a short introduction in the battle torn desert and
unfolds with his journey to the concentration camp of Zonderwater,
on the outskirts of Pretoria, South Africa. The years he spent
in that camp and how he tutored illiterate men much older
than himself, to read and write. Later, his transfer to a
convent north of Durban and how he transformed this haven
and built new classrooms. Also the impact he had on certain
people's lives.
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Knight
of the Sky
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(135 Kb)
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The
Man from Ostuni
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(170 Kb)
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A
Passage through Time
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(273 Kb)
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