I can’t sleep because of the guilt. I have not been able to do so since I was 16. That was in 1956, the year when University High School performed Enduring as the Camphor Tree as our school play. I played the demanding role of Shen Lo, a Chinese merchant involved in palace intrigue and protecting his daughter from some nameless horror, a bit like having a Mandarin lesson from Kevin Rudd.
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