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Shedding the Skin
Kyra Bandte
“Wailwan is probably a lot like any other country town with a population of about two and a half thousand. There’s a lot of dirt, a lot of single-storey houses, and the Castlereagh River is like an artery: beneath the skin, you can feel a pulse. The earth is flat …”