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His name is James, he recommends handsome Mac's wine

23 February 2008, well after 8pm... James is the last to arrive at the long, 20-chair table in the far corner of an oddly-named Federation Square restaurant...
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Her name is Caroline, she was a Toorak debutante

There's no-one else on King Island quite like Caroline Kininmonth - wild pepper picker, potter, restorer of boatsheds...
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Her name is Bea, she went fishing in the Middle East and crabbing in Kuwait

27 January 2008, nearly 3pm... Bea and daughter 20-something daughter sit in the sun-filled corner table by the window of out-of-the-way Rue Bebelon...
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His name is Matt, he will shoot at the Beijing Olympics

29 March 2008, around 9pm.....
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His name is Peter, he is in the pursuit of family

8 January 2008, around 2pm... Peter opens the door to a third cousin he has never seen before...
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Her name is Kathy, her knees are made of titanium

13 February 2008, precisely 10.03am... Kathy bunches her hands into a tight ball as she self-consciously attempts to fit more of her ample torso into her window seat on the mid-morning flight...
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His name is Justin, he is a winegeek

Regional Food, Summer 2008 March 2006.....
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Her name is Jean, she is 88 today

12, February 2006, around 10.11am… Jean Roper is 88 today...
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His name is Jason, he spends a lot of time in Second Life

12 August 2007, just before 9am… Jason displays an easy politeness when asked to vacate one of the three seats he has claimed at the end of the fourth row...
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Her name is Dani, she became a fiancé yesterday

15 July 2007, 10...
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Hi name is Len, he is a gold-digger

2001-ish... It was a mild Ballarat day when gold prospector Len Goldsmith was explored a fresh patch with an old mate...
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Her name is unknown, she is on her way to Pakenham

23 November 2007, possibly 9.02am… The old lady steps into the quiet of city-bound tram from the noisy tram stop on busy St Kilda road...
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His name is James, he is a big, juicy, rollicking writer

25 August 2007, possible 10.16am… James sits across from American writer Jeffery Deaver in the middle of the Merlyn Theatre’s stage...
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His name is Rod, he fixes bowling alleys for a living

March 2007, around 8pm… Rod waits quietly while his fourth date takes her time to step up and settle into the high stool across round bar table...
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His name is Adrian, he is no Mr Fixit

1 October 2006, around 1.30pm… Adrian busily rushes into the small, white house...
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Her name is Heidi, her drawings are moody

5 March 2007, it could be 11...
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His name is Bill, golf puts him in an good mood

October 2006, around 7.32pm… Three of Bill’s four twenty-something children are busy preparing his Father’s Day dinner in the family’s large, well-equipped kitchen...
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Her name was Tara, she had sweet-girl cheek

A Saturday in March 2001, around 6pm… Wearing a loose, white t-shirt, pale grey tracksuit paints and a tube taped down against her neck, Tara opens the front door to greet an older cousin...
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Her name is Jocelyn, she rebuilt Kow Plains

22 September 2006, around 1.22pm… Jocelyn steps out from her new air-conditioned Holden hatchback into an extremely hot and dry Mallee spring day...
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His name is Ian, he loves the thrill of the chase

26 May 2006, around 3...
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His name is PJ, he is a pioneer park caretaker

17 August 2006, around 3.34pm… “I thought I heard voices,” said a small man with a smoke-croaky voice standing in the doorway of train carriage No.3 at the Millewa Pioneer Park...
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His name is Cal, he is a modern-day countryman

19 November 2006, around 2.13pm… Cal is late. He walks silently along the unsealed Fyfe Road towards Fanny’s Flat...
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His name is BJ, he is the last to eat cake

14 May 2007, possibly 3.12pm… BJ shows the new freelancer the way to the boardroom on Level 3. Down the open-air stairs. The black-painted steps are only slightly worn with heavy use...
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His name is Ali, he recently became a husband

7 March 2007, around 3pm… Ali quickly stands to his feet as two new guests arrive at the near-water beer garden where he and his new wife and some of the wedding party are drinking beer and...
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Her name is Emilie, she will be in Kyrgyzstan soon

1 March 2007, it could be 8.43pm… Emilie sits with a few co-workers in a small courtyard bar just a few streets away from her inner-city house. The co-worker to her right is Filipino...
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His name Dr Lazarus, he is fascinated by eyes

14 March 2007, precisely 10...
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Her name is Lola, she marches to Frosty the Snowman

6 January 2007, 10.06am… Lola walks through the front door and instantly kicks off her pink rubber sandals under the low hallway table...
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His name is Jason, he was Brad Pitt's body double

2 March 2007, possibly 4.13pm… Jason quietly takes a chair from a nearby poker table and finds a place within a seated circle of a random group of work colleagues...
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Her name was Marlene, she died a few weeks ago

21 December 2006, around 11am… A middle-aged man dressed in tired tan slacks and an almost-tan shirt jerkily paces from one end of the three metre-long service counter to the other...
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His name is Johann, he is a handyman for hire

16 January 2007, 9.47am… Johann is 13 minutes early to fix the ageing front door of an inner-city one bedroom house. The 30-something woman opens the door with still-wet hair...
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Her name is Helen, she works in Romance

8 December 2006, around 8.13pm... It’s just over two weeks before Christmas and late-teen Helen operates the busy Register 4 in an inner-city Dymocks bookshop on a quiet Friday night...
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Her name is Kerryn, she used to make up her own ABBA words

9 August 2006, around 8.21pm... A pot of beer in-hand, Kerryn leans back into the too-low, eggplant-coloured couch...
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His first name is Victor, his last name is Mota

8 September 1999, 3...
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His name is Ivan, he was a Ship Photographer

15 April 2006, around 10.48am... Ivan leans his tall and lean 70-something frame against the newly installed walkway at Mungo National Park...
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