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I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

Melina Marchetta

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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
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