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It's a Long Story by Sydney Opera House

Feb 11, 202040:07Arts

Sarah Smarsh is the daughter of a teenaged mother, who was the daughter of a teenaged mother, who was the daughter of a teenaged mother. Born into a dirt-poor family in rural Kansas, Smarsh realised young that if she cou...

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