secrets
We have secrets, my sister and I.
At sixteen
she left without telling our mother
to live with our father in the Outback.
It seared our mother to the bone
when she found the note
on the kitchen table.
My sister, my father’s favourite,
found our parents marriage break up
particularly devastating.
She hurt all her life
she had wounded our mother.
I haven't told anyone about it,
she said
Not even my children.
The Battle of Boodicuttup Creek
Three children to save a creek from the developers
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Secrets are kept in the strength of siblings.
Lady Mary Ann
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