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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Elephantiasis
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form y separately published work icon Elephantiasis Danielle Wood , ( dir. Sophie Hyde ) Australia : Closer Productions , 2010 25008842 2010 single work film/TV

"Meredith has elephantiasis. That is, a burden of elephants. For years her neighbours, friends, family and students have been offering up stuffed, marble, magnetised elephants, even elephant shaped waffle makers, tea cups and pens. But you see, Meredith doesn’t even like elephants. She could have mentioned this, of course, but she knows that this imagined fondness of hers for elephants is proof of her jolliness, a huge joke against herself, and she knows that a jolly fat woman without jolliness is left with only one adjective. When a marriage proposal from the one person she hoped would understand her goes horribly wrong, Meredith is forced to confront her Elephantiasis. Can she break free from her social politeness and let her friends know who she really is?"

Source: South Australia Made Showcase. 

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