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Jul 2024
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BEST OF 1001 (#21 OF 470) BRIGHTEN'S ...

JON HAGADORN
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This story was a great find and is still one of our best performing episodes. Australian writer Henry Lawson's dramatic tale told by a young husband who recalls hard times when he and his wife were raising a three year old in the Australian bush in the days just after the gold rush.

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