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Japie Monologue

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In 1968. Jagersfontein my second brother, just younger than me Japie Bedle was born. He was my mom’s biggest baby and came in at 9 pounds with black curly hair and bottle green eyes and a lisp when he talked. I loved to play with him from the beginning. I hugged and kissed him and he always would give me a big bright smile. He soon became the apple of my eye and my mom’s. He was always my mom’s beloved son. When Mom ran errands she would always ask me to hold his bottle. As soon a Ma left the room and started being busy with other choirs. I would lay on my back and suck that bottle dry. Moses was the “big responsible brother” that went telling on me. The secret was out and I was never asked to hold Japie’s bottle again. As children, we were best friends, we developed a love-hate relationship and later a master-slave relationship.
Japie’s birth soon followed by our youngest brother Boetie, who we just in short called Boo Jantjankies. He cried all the time and was hanging around my mom. Boo was crying most of the time after birth, he had to be held for extended time periods. The maid tied him in a blanket to her back as she was cleaning the house. The warmth of her body absorbed the …show more content…

Zoon worked in the olds system inches and feet, but he also worked in the metric system. Over time Pa Zoon added to his list of skills, how to skilled welding and toolmaking. In the mine Zoon was called to help here and there and everywhere. Many times there were a shortage of trained welders. He learned fast on all the different welding machines and learned by reading after hours. He mastered welding; the arc welder, TIG (tungsten inert gas) welder and MIG (metal inert gas) welder. He helped out on the assembly lines. One of his great accomplishments was when he builds and overseeing the structural welding and steel-works of one of the first dome (glass) churches in the southern hemissherpe in

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