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And somewhere in Mamelodi, a gardener stopped pruning a rose bush. He hummed a melody—an old one, not yet recorded. Maybe tomorrow he’d go to the church hall. Maybe not.

The taxi wound through the Johannesburg twilight, its rusted chassis groaning in harmony with the crackling radio. Inside, Thandi leaned her head against the rain-streaked window, watching the city lights bleed into gold and amber smears. She was fleeing a breakup—the kind that leaves you hollow, where the silence in your own flat becomes a living, breathing enemy. eddie zondi romantic ballads

“If I had only held your hand one more time, I would have memorised the lines. Not to draw you, no— But to find my way home.” And somewhere in Mamelodi, a gardener stopped pruning

“Who is this?” Thandi whispered.

Thandi paused the tape. She picked up her phone. She typed a message to her ex—not an angry one, not a pleading one. Just: “I hope you find your constellations.” Maybe not

The old man laughed—a dry, sad sound. “Eddie Zondi? He quit in 2005. Said the music business was ‘too loud for his soul.’ He’s a gardener now. In Mamelodi. Prunes roses for rich people.”

Thandi forgot to breathe. The fat man next to her, who’d been scrolling angrily on his phone, stopped. The driver turned down the volume of his own grumbling and just let the music play.