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\title{ View from Woodbridge verandah to the river }

\author{ Sam Wilson }

\date{ 2019 April 28 (Sunday), 12:22PM }

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Looking out a window on the verandah, down past the flagpole to the river and the little bay in which the school's rowing club launches.

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