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In 2014, Linda Brucesmith was a Brisbane-based writer and public relations consultant. She has worked as a magazine and newspaper journalist in Sydney, Melbourne, the Snowy Mountains and on the Gold Coast.
'Once upon a time, when World War II was just ended and possibilities were again whispering over Europe, a German dancer met an Australian doctor in Hamburg’s Zillertal beerhouse. Infatuated, they married on the other side of the world. Under Queensland’s diamond light, the dancer negotiated differences like canyons until a bright-feathered fedora changed her life forever.'
