![]() ![]() Me father wanted to live in a place near water if not the sea, then a river. At that time we were the only house for miles and miles. I reckon I need new curtains, these are a bit dusty and fraying, but they keep out the summer light when it's so strong it hurts me eyes. Anyway, I'd sooner yabber to me self than listen to those voices inside that box. There always be mongrel music in it, like it's shouting all the time. Me only new thing is the cabinet with a radio in it which Mr Dixon down at the general store gave me. And there's me father's harpoon hanging from the living room wall with its cracked wooden handle and rusted blade. ![]() I got a wedding photograph of me mother and me father when men wore beards and sat down for the picture while me mother wears a wedding dress and stands beside him. Though I live here by meself I am not lonely. It is crumbling round me ears now, but the roof hardly leaks and if I chop enough wood I can heat the place when it snows. I were born in Tasmania, born not in a hospital but here in the backblocks. But here's me story and I be glad to tell it before I hop the twig. ![]() Me first thing is an apology me language is bad cos I lost it and had to learn it again. Me name be Hannah o 'Brien and I be seventy-six years old. ![]()
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