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How A ‘Fake Genuine-Russian Choir’ Forged Trust And Camaraderie With Russia

Maria Rattray
5 min readJul 21, 2020

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Be who you are. Say what you feel. Those who mind don’t matter. Those who matter don’t mind. Dr Seuss

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash

It’s a quaint little Australian town in the north of New South Wales.

But be warned. This is a place you should never visit.

BECAUSE…

Because you might never leave.

In days gone by, back in the 70s, it was a cheap place to hang out. Inland, yet still close to the sea, it was cheap and cheerful, and home to many alternative lifestyle people:

  • with tightly-held beliefs
  • who had thumbed their noses at city living
  • who enjoyed being barefoot
  • who were anti-vaxxer sympathizers, (not necessarily nut cases, but ones whose personal experience caused them to question)
  • who just enjoyed the peace, and freedom, and the culture of a backwater town

There was room for everyone in this charming, little place. Yet people resisted for a while.

These days it’s a shade more expensive…more than a shade, actually!

It’s a place where the sun shines bravely…a beautiful place to live. With one main street housing almost all the seductive…

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Maria Rattray
Maria Rattray

Written by Maria Rattray

Writer, author, teacher, fun-loving poet. Trying valiantly to make the world a better place. Helping you to guide the future. Find me at: https://ponmyword.com

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