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Keywords: Stamps

ARTS AND CULTURE

My brother's hat mourns his death
- Brian Doyle
- 19 June 2013
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If you were a familiar Irish cap, and had waited all night every night for 30 years for the blessing of the morning when he'd reach for you, knead you and fold you gently over his ungovernable hair, wouldn't you wonder where he was the first few days after he vanished, and feel something like a silent sadness?
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AUSTRALIA

Roasts and race in segregated South Africa
- Cecile Yazbek
- 26 October 2011
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Anthony cleans gutters. Some people give him money. When he has enough he buys himself a piece of chicken. 'Where is your mother,' I wonder, 'who roasted fat chickens in our oven, and cooked giant pots of meaty bones for our dogs, her brown arms pitted with burns from our kettles?'
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Confessions of a stamp murderer
- Devyani Borade
- 03 March 2010
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I am a pigtailed nine-year-old in frocks when I first lay eyes on the album. At a glance I can tell my grandfather's obviously old stamps from my dad's newer ones. Excitement fills me. What a treasure! I am rich! Now I can buy all the dolls I want!
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Kisses of life and death
- Ian C. Smith
- 06 October 2009
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The kiss of peace in the Eucharist .. Judas' kiss of death, CPR's of life .. Georgie Porgie's, spin the bottle's .. the kiss of a rolling billiard ball .. Gene Simmons' great tongue Kiss
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

An unlikely pilgrim
- Michelle Coram
- 12 December 2007
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The Camino de Santiago in Spain is over a thousand years old and trodden by tens of thousands of pilgrims each year. But for this pilgrim it was simply a cheap holiday, a sure way to get fit. She wasn't expecting any miracles.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Occasional harmonies
- Gerard Windsor
- 04 July 2006
Gerard Windsor in Sicily.
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