November 21, 2009
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Me and Miss J

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January/February 2001 Issue
By Stephen Osborne, Geist (www.geist.com) 
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The play with the koala family was simple and direct: First Julia un-Velcroed the baby koala and took it to one side of the room and took the mother koala to the other side, and then she began moving back and forth between them, crooning to them and comforting them in turn. Accompanied by Julia’s crooning, the ancient story of the child abandoned by her mother unfolded in my living room. Eventually Julia put mother koala and baby koala together for the last time and said, "Here you are." Then she covered them up with a blanket.

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Later we went for a walk and she fell asleep in the stroller. When she woke up I asked her what she had been dreaming and she paused for a moment and said, "I had no dreams at all."

From Geist (#36). Subscriptions: $21/yr. (4 issues) from 1014 Homer St., Suite 103, Vancouver, BC V6B 2W9.

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