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Lost in the Desert (essay)
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Sometimes in life you get through one grief when another is dumped on you, and it can feel like you are wandering through the desert unable to find the way out.
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Tarla Kramer
Tarla Kramer grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. After a few trips to South America, and a few years in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, she returned to her home state. She now lives in the Flinders Ranges, about 350km north of Adelaide, with her four children, 2 cats, 1 cocky and half a dozen chooks.
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Lost in the Desert (essay) - Tarla Kramer
Lost in the Desert.
by Tarla Kramer
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There is a little house which overlooks a valley I have loved since I was sixteen, where I live with my kids. It is on the outskirts of
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