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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
Child
Faults
Jezebel
Home
Fingers
Collarbone
Children
Dad
Weeping
Brought
Smiling
Horse
Finger
Cutting
Ran
Broken
Fault
Wasn
Incredible

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