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	Podcast:		News and Views
	Episode:		241: My Friend Anissia Was All That a Young Girl Wants to Grow Up to Be
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:06:09
	Publish Date:		2018-07-24 05:12:41
	Description:		I first met Anissia the day I joined The Lawrence School, Lovedale. She was sitting by a window in our dormitory, playing cards. I had been hearing about her for a while though, from her father, the then Colonel Batra, who picked me up everyday to go horse-riding in Wellington, before I started school at Lovedale. I was fascinated by her name – it was so unique – and by all that her father (whom I called Uncle) had told me about Anissia on our morning drives to the stables. Anissia was of course already ‘cooler’ by virtue of studying in Lovedale, while I went to the relatively modest Kendriya Vidyalaya at Wellington. On my first day, Anissia met me with warmth and a big grin, and showed me around. I was grateful to know someone – in a place that was soon beginning to look less and less like Mallory Towers and St Clare’s – that I’d read about in Enid Blyton’s books.
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