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A walk to the clinic doesn't have to be dull, when there are so many wonderful things to see on the way. *** This work was published by Book Dash under a Creative Commons licence. Please note that for publication on the FunDza site, the pictures and the text were separated.

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Louwrisa Blaauw, Bianca de Jong and Jade Mathieson

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