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THE THORN BIRDS ABC, March 27-30

Dear Dad,

Sorry I didn't make it home to Gun-dagai for the bushfires. Fact is, I got stuck in New York with this sheila I met on the plane, watching a preview of a TV series the Yanks made of The Thorn Birds—you know, the novel by Colleen McCullough that Auntie Pat was reading before the port got her. Long as a snake's liver and all about this priest (Richard Chamberlain) and a girl named Meggie (Rachel Ward) on a station (or ranch, as they call it here)...

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