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"That was a
cruel thing when I was in Nepabunna. See my husband was from there
but I was from up north. I was an outsider and in the Aboriginal
way the children are classed on the mother's side. You
come from the mother and therefore you're that group and my daughter
was real
sick and I didn't know what was wrong
but I knew she was real ill.
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My
in-laws wouldn't even help me to bring the body back to Nepabunna
from Adelaide and I couldn't get down there (to Adelaide) because
I just had a baby. Molly had a tumour.
She
fell off the shed and hit her head and we left it and it turned into
a tumour. Not long ago I went to Adelaide and…found her grave.She
died in 1939. I couldn't get down to her funeral or anything."
(Ruth Mackenzie, Port Augusta, 1984 in Education Dept. SA, 1992; 69)
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