KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN PLEASE, PLEASE, FIX THAT TYPO It is perhaps the longest running uncorrected literary error in history. I checked at the offices, with a number of people, but they all denied any involvement or culpability. “It apparently didn’t get picked up by ‘Spell Check,’” I was informed. “Oh, what a lame excuse,” I snorted. “Do you know that she’s here right now, right here, in the gift shop sweeping her credit card through the air like a saber? She’s not going to be happy.” They looked at me blankly. They didn’t understand. But it turned out that Kristen didn’t mind. It didn’t seem to bother her at all. Maybe it’s really me who is so disturbed by that transposition of letters, I thought, it just looks so terribly wrong, so terribly, terribly wrong.
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