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"ref": "1994, Lydia Laube, The Long Way Home: Nobody Goes that Way, published 2002, page 22",
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"ref": "2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 431",
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