Slender, shy Sheila Dora Carstens was born to white parents in color-conscious Cape Town, attended white schools. When she was 17, Sheila's father died. For a while she lived with a colored woman (meaning, in South Africa, of mixed blood) who took care of her, and in 1945 she married a colored man. Sheila's family turned their backs on her. Last year, after her husband died she met Ronald Awood, a truck driver, handsome, quiet, and colored. Sheila and Awood lived together. Then, with a child coming, they tried to get married. But...
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