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Author note: The headquote is the last stanza of Kenneth Slessor's last published poem which begins 'I wish I were at Orange ...', written for class 5A at Orange in April 1962. It appears in Geoffrey Dutton's Kenneth Slessor: A Biography, Melbourne, Penguin, 1991, p.11.
'... This story, a work of fiction, is intended not as an accurate portrait of Slessor, but as an homage to his shadow which still haunts the Sydney streets.'
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