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    My Mother's Keeper
    My Mother's Keeper
    My Mother's Keeper
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    My Mother's Keeper

    By Rowena Fortuin

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    For 13-year-old Krystal, staying in one place for too long isn't an option. Her eternal wanderlust compels her to go wherever the wind takes her. But that's not all that's making her restless. She doesn't have the best relationship with her mother and older sister and hitch-hiking is her only escape. 

    What Krystal didn't count on was a trip with her absent mother and boastful sister. Suddenly, she'd give anything to go home. Will the three of them be able to bond or does their trip spell 'disaster'?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowena Fortuin
    Release dateSep 1, 2021
    ISBN9798201927301
    My Mother's Keeper
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    Rowena Fortuin

    Rowena Claudia Fortuin is the author of the novella, Caged. She's always had a passion for stories and believes that everybody has one. Rowena lives in Kraaifontein with her family and two cats.  

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      Book preview

      My Mother's Keeper - Rowena Fortuin

      Dear 21-year-old Krystal

      How's life treating you? Are you still fighting for the underdog? I hope you’re still hitch-hiking to somewhere.

      Being thirteen is hard. I feel so in-between all the time. Do you have any advice to help me feel a little less in the middle?

      Love,

      your 13-year-old self

      Prologue

      I USED TO FIND THE word ‘wanderlust’ confusing. When I had to spell it in school I always wrote it as ‘wonderlust.’ And of course, I got it wrong. Later on, I searched for it in a dictionary and not only did I find the correct spelling. What I found was so much more. I found the meaning. And after learning the meaning I realised that looking it up in the dictionary was unnecessary.

      Because I was the definition of wanderlust.

      And even though my mother and I had so little in common, so was she.

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      THE FIRST TIME I MET my friend Felix, I told him with an outstretched hand My name is Krystal with a 'K'. Do I make myself clear?

      Felix nodded. Crystal clear.

      I pretended to be annoyed by his silliness, all while stifling a giggle.  Along with the red-head jokes, that was his favourite line that he used to work on my nerves. Felix was the first friend I'd ever made. Then he moved with his family. He left Oudtshoorn for the city after his parents decided there were more opportunities for him elsewhere.

      I couldn’t blame them, of course. Even though I was mad that Felix left me behind, I understood. I guess the reason I was really angry was because I was jealous that he got to get out of Oudtshoorn and I had to stay. Don’t get me wrong. This isn’t a bad place to live. I just feel like there’s so much more out there  waiting for me. And I'm going to make sure I find out what that ‘so much more' is.

      When Felix and I wandered through the bushes as we often did, the rare wind blowing through my unruly tresses, he glanced at me in this strange way and said that I always look like the wind would blow me away to some place far away. That Felix had a funny way of talking. But through his nonsensical thinking I made sense of his words. And every time I wander or

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