We knew that the man who had been attacked was there, and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst, we saw them in the centre of the mirror, saw ourselves standing beside them.
Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings, and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it.
And when home skipper Kepler Wessels, an Afrikaaner, completed a commanding century, blacks and whites stood shoulder to shoulder in the stands to applaud. (BNC-B)