Sunday Times

How the flame died

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“Ever since I came back from prison, not once has the defendant ever entered our bedroom while I was awake,” Nelson Mandela said during his divorce in 1996. “The bedroom is where a man and woman discuss the most intimate details. There were so many things I wanted to discuss with her, but she is the type of person who fears confrontat­ion. I was the loneliest man during the period I stayed with her”

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