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Where
We Grew Up
For
a few summers my family had Christmas holidays in a shack at
the mouth of the Greenough River, just south of Geraldton. A strange
house in retrospect, to a child it was the most remarkable place to
have year after year, and I sometimes think that it was this house
that caused me to become a writer. It was certainly the prime cause
of my obsession with the coastal life
The
house
itself consisted
mainly of one huge L-shaped room lined with beds, remnants of other
houses and times and places. They were a wild assortment and a kid
could jump from one end of the place to the other without touching
the bare concrete floor that was always adrift with balls of dust
and streaks of beach sand
Tim
Winton, Australian writer
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