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If you’re from Benoni – as I am – and you accept the assurance to aberrate alfresco the parish, folk from above the borders will accept one of three responses back they apprehend you’re a Benonian.
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They’ll say: where?; Or: is that area you had your aboriginal Peroni? (laughing, as if they’re the aboriginal being to anytime say it.); Or: the Bunny Park!
And again they’ll bethink a adolescence of travelling to Benoni to hunt the acclaimed bunnies for hours on end, aggravating to allure carotene-weary rabbits with yet addition abject carrot, assuredly communicable one, and again carriage it about until it wriggled abroad or scratched, or they had to go home.
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Perhaps, back they left, they were that adolescent who handed their beat aerial to me, for I was not fleet-of-foot abundant to bolt a bunny of my own, so would adhere about nonchalantly until addition anesthetized on their prize. It was a accomplished day out. Unless you were a rabbit.
But for a while now, , they clutter the surrounding area and bounded abundance groups accept again asserted that they’re malnourished, diseased, and ancestry above control.
["993.28"]It apparently doesn’t advice that, for years, it’s been area folk dump their exceptionable aerial pets. So the esplanade appropriately bankrupt “for refurbishment”, new homes were approved for rabbits and, finally, 2000 were alien off to Joburg Zoo – as feed.
Eventually, the esplanade will reopen, we’re told, with some sterilised rabbits in an enclosure. It’s a scandal, folk say, addition admirable affair from the accomplished swept abroad by the politically actual brigade.
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And this got me cerebration about my adolescence and the hours spent clutching those abashed rabbits. And the air-conditioned alcohol loaded with tartrazine that fabricated our chests whistle. And accurate playgrounds. And bonbon cigarettes with orange tips. And eenie-meenie-miney-mo, the one back you don’t say “tiger”. And the hidings, adults physically assaulting accouchement as a affectionate right.
Perhaps aggregate from the rose-tinted accomplished was not good. Aloof ask the atramentous kids who weren’t accustomed into the Bunny Park. Aloof ask the bunnies.
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Jennie Ridyard.
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