Defective affinities.(Excerpt)

From: Chicago Review | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

My mother's family were harbour people, my maternal grandmother a Scot married to a carpenter; my father's family were river folk, my paternal grandmother Irish, her husband a lamplighter and fisherman. When my parents met and began courting, Mum had only just left school; Dad was a roughrider who did the rodeo circuits all around New South Wales. After they married, they moved to a house at Neutral Bay with a backyard large enough to hold their new horse, my father having sold Rocky Ned and his other buckjumping horses and bought a sensible Clydesdale, Dobbin. This was in 1943, ...

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