Saturday, February 22, 2020

Ancestral Land

I was driving along a country road recently when I came across a road named with my surname. It is an area that was inhabited by my ancestors - now farming country with little native vegetation and most traces of the aboriginal inhabitants are erased.

Can I do more than say "Sorry"?
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