IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 60.

'What we recall of our experiences of the past, tends to be a factor of how they impacted on our senses at the time, the strength of our continuing attachment to those experiences.  

And the extent to which we have succeeded in assimilating them into our subsequent experiences and move on with our lives.'

So much for that, in his early teens when Kazaliwa began bunking off from school and staying away from home.  

He would more often than not be found at the home of one of his white friends, whose father was not too concerned about his son not attending school. 

Yes, it had been the case that Kazaliwa, notwithstanding the fact that he had been the subject of racial bullying by some children while he was attending Junior School.  

Had many white friends to whom he was very close. And it was not the case that it was their addiction to using elicit drugs that bind them together. 

Or that there were only a handful of black families and even less black children Kazaliwa's age and gender living in the locality. With whom he could form friendship. 

In fact, there had been the poignant case of Kazaliwa having a violent confrontation with one of the very few black boys in the neighbourhood.

No, it was more the case that he had a strong affinity to probably as many as probably a dozen or more white peers. 

And his relationship with some of them was not fleeting but lasted for years. Kazaliwa's first serious girlfriend would also be white.

To be continued!