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They’re feared for their fierce protection of sovereignty and dive-bombing trespassers, but all is forgiven listening to a pair of magpies warbling in a gumtree
Anodyne eastern suburbs Melbourne seemed less dangerous than any other place in the world when I was a primary school kid.
There was the creek with its tadpoles, turtles and occasional foxes. There was, inevitably, a local haunted house. And there was the path.
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