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A Bright FRIENDSHIP

John Edmonstone was not born to make a difference. He was not even born with a name of his own. He was called Edmonstone because that was the surname of his master.

But one day, 7,500 kilometres from the sugar plantation where his life had started, this former slave sat down with a teenager who would become one

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