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Australian Notes

Australian notes

10 October 2015

9:00 AM

10 October 2015

9:00 AM

There are elements of a fairy story, as the Mayor of Paris noted, in the marriage the other day of my grand-daughter Maisie Dubosarsky to Simon Fieschi, one of the survivors of the January massacre at the French satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo. The themes of true love surviving an horrible ordeal and triumphing over evil monsters are present and irresistible in both.

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