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DISCOVERING SIENA

I don’t want to move this fast, I’m not ready for the future. Great mountains wave goodbye, I’m not ready
– Siena Stubbs, excerpt from Shinkansen

t’s hard to take on board that the giggling young woman chatting with me on the phone from Yirrkala in far eastern Arnhemland is descended

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