We would have dinner as a family at about 17:30 after which my sister and I would have to be bathed by 18:30. My father would read from the bible for us as a family. We would enjoy some family time together, playing a boardgame or enjoying a movie on one of the first TV's to enter South Africa.
My father being a very cultured, well read and educated man would after sending us children to bed retire into a smokers robe and indulge in some opera or classical music
, a cigarette and sometimes a whiskey.
Dad would read while listening to his opera. Some heavy reading sometimes and easily getting through a book in one sitting, stuff like Shogun, not a thin book, but it got done.
Dad would finish up his book, clean up after himself, check up on us all, make sure the doors were locked and set off to bed.
We were safe, happy and close as a family unit. We respected each other and enjoyed each other's company. What happened to that civilized freedom and safety? What happened to good an decent family values? How can anyone call the hell perpetrated on us now an improvement of any kind and why are people so offended by one wishing to have that kind of a safe free life?
I want my safe free life back.
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