An elderly gentleman came to OPD yesterday to check up on his congestive heart failure, and to get a new supply of his medicines. He was brought by his 2 sons and the local Nazarene pastor (although the patient isn't Nazarene--way to go, Pastor!) He was such a classic older PNG man, that I couldn't resist the impulse to figure out how old he is.He was married with children at the time of PNG's independence in 1975. In fact, one of the son's who was with him is his third child, and was a teenager at that time.
So I asked about WWII. There were a lot of flights over the highlands, so people who were older than just a few years at that time usually remember it. This gentleman was a teenager when the planes were going over. So by my calculations, he must have been born about 1930.1930 is the year that the world "discovered" the highlands of PNG. Maybe he was one of the ones that were discovered.
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