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"text": "Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us.\n\"Carn, kid. No guts, no glory.\"\n\"I don't think so,\" I said.\n\"It's the only way home now.\""
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"ref": "2004 February 12, “Keeping sport local on our ABC”, in The Age",
"text": "Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: \"When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn, they cry, carn … feebly at first.\"",
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