Chapter 14

Ellie

It’s been a couple of weeks since Raphael’s funeral and, Max and I have been going to bereavement counseling . We are both dealing with our loss together and we had an event execute before the end of November… After Black Friday to be exact.

We don’t celebrate Thanks Giving in South Africa we have enough holidays. If you count the amount of public holidays we have, we would all have one Friday off at the end of each month. We have twelve public holidays in total . We also adopted the Black Friday custom. I tend to stay clear of any shops … especially in the mornings. Just last year alone we had reports of injuries majority of them surprisingly weren’t at the alcohol outlets who also had discounts. The line was long , (lottery line long) but they were well behaved . Since I found out I was pregnant I decided not to participate in anything crazy. We studied consumer behavi