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And then came the football.

I found a book that was the book. Right book, right time. Beautiful. I needed to switch off from the Net, from Twitter and its comments and articles to read. From the television news. From everything that was anything to … Continue reading

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An hour with Helen Garner.

It was the lighting that did it. Helen Garner looked too old to be Helen Garner. Every now and then, when she tilted her chin upward, she looked like herself. But they were brief and unheralded moments. I had wanted … Continue reading

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