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Eileen is left to fight for her very existence, while her mother&#x27;s secrets pursue her, threatening to destroy everything she has succeeded in building.<br \/>In Soweto, Johannesburg&#x27;s black suburb, a boy was arrested yesterday.<br \/>&quot;He&#x27;s only as old as you,&quot; Mom had said. Though I stood up straight, she was still a head taller than me. When she lowered her eyes to me, I saw surprise in them, as if she was saying, &quot;How did you grow so suddenly? And how have you remained a child?&quot;<br \/>&quot;There are no children in Soweto,&quot; Mom once told me. &quot;Someone whose life hangs by a thread is not a child. There is no such creature.&quot;<br \/>I remember feeling then that all of my fifteen years were stolen from that unknown boy who was thrown into jail, from all the children who are no longer children.<br \/>Forty years later and a continent away, Tovi Taylor is grappling with so many questions. 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