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The summer that changed everything
In this Herald series, we asked prominent artists, comedians, authors and journalists to write about their “summer that changed everything”.
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Amid bushfire’s smoke, there was kindness everywhere you looked
As the fires raged, we huddled in an evacuation centre with 100 other people: it was Armageddon-like.
- Samantha Selinger-Morris
Taylor Swift helped me through one of the toughest times of my life
My pregnancy was not an easy one, but there were some days of magic – including three glorious hours singing at the top of my lungs with some of my closest girlfriends (and 96,000 others) to Taylor Swift.
- Victoria Devine
Shelter from the storm of Africa
At the southern Italian port of Brindisi, I bought a map of Africa and set off on the trip of my life, which felt like a long-running Bob Dylan song.
- Peter FitzSimons
How my fake ID led to a baptism of warm beer and rock’n’roll
What a week in Sydney that was: I caught the train home feeling like I had been dumped by a big, sweaty, wonderful wave.
- Callan Boys
I joined the next idiot tourist procession at the hospital
With Eurail passes and no plans, these “serious girls who had studied hard” were ready to cut loose, and Greece was calling.
- Jacqueline Maley
Apocalyptic skies, a homecoming like no other
Returning to a very different city, I had a new job, an apartment, friends and was free to enjoy life for the first time in a long time: all solidified by an eerie beach experience.
- Kumi Taguchi
The summer I traded for five weeks with a French family
From blue cheese and frog legs, to learning Latin in French: here’s how I fared being thrown into a French winter with the vocabulary of a two-year-old.
- Millie Muroi
Discovering that motherhood has a strange way of stretching love
Outside, the city was baking, but my world had just narrowed and widened to just my boy.
- Kate Halfpenny
The single phone call that changed my world
On one hot summer morning 20 years ago, events on the other side of the planet intruded in the most shocking way.
- Nick Galvin
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