"If she's asleep, I call her name and she wakes to my voice. Her pupils open wide and she looks at me. I brush her teeth and plait her hair. It's waist-length now.
"Uma elele, ngimbiza ngegama bese evuswa yizwi lami. Izinhlamvu zamehlo akhe zivuleka kakhulu bese engibuka. Ngimgeza amazinyo ngiluke izinweIe zakhe. Sezifika okhalweni manje.