“Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from here. I had to sleep at the Santangelo penitentiary for pre-pubescent girls.”

— Melina Marchetta , book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

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Australian teen writer 1965

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