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The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

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Pam Brown
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 1
Performing Artist
Poet
Writer
Seymour
Victoria
Australia
Brought
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Horse
Finger
Cutting
Ran
Broken
Fault
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Incredible
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Jezebel
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Fingers
Collarbone
Children
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Weeping

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