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Flat White

Elegy for Warnie

6 March 2022

4:00 AM

6 March 2022

4:00 AM

Shane Warne is gone. An Australian is gone. An Australia is gone.

That he was taken far too soon goes without saying. But for someone so much larger than life in his achievements and personality, going suddenly at just 52 seems somehow fitting.

Some people are not meant to die in old age, but instead to burn brightly and go out.

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