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Diary Australia

US Diary

29 July 2017

9:00 AM

29 July 2017

9:00 AM

It was a somewhat surreal experience to be standing with my partner and two children in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square, in the shadow of the Haunted Mansion, watching red, white and blue fireworks light up the sky on the 4th of July. But there we were on the national holiday, a day vested with enormous sentiment for Americans about their past and future, watching them hand-on-heart singing the national anthem, few with dry eyes.To

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