The Olden Days – Toowoomba

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The huge cop – they all seemed to be huge in Queensland in 1976 – rustled through my desk drawer as if I wasn’t standing right beside him.

‘What exactly are you looking for?’ I asked. He ignored me. After some more rustling, he pulled out a pipe. My mum had given it to me to encourage me to give up smoking cigarettes.

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