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Shana Fife
I was three months shy of my 21
st birthday, and I had committed the one unforgivable act for a Coloured girl from the Cape Flats. I sat on the toilet, staring at the pregnancy test, mostly confused by how I had fallen so far down the social ladder so quickly. The sex I had been having wasn’t even worth the trouble I was in. But the two lines that were almost glowing in one of the darkest moments of my life were there, and they weren’t fading.
By the time Shana Fife is 25 she has two kids from different fathers. To the Coloured people she grew up around, she is a
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