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Anne Kadet's avatar

“A prison with beaches!” “Sharks who can write!” So many great lines in here Jason!

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Thank you Anne!

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Jill Grunewald's avatar

You must miss your dad… I miss mine. I’m from manhattan and traveled all continents but yours, NZ and Antarctica. I loved reading your piece! Let me know when you’re performing in manhattan. I love humor…

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Thanks Jill. I’m sorry for your loss.

I will let you know!

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Penelope Herbert's avatar

Hey, I live in 'functionally theoretical' Adelaide ... but I'm a Kiwi so... :-)

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Karen Kiddey's avatar

I like the perspective drawing of the Perth Library window-glad you included it!

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

Dear Jason,

This is a beautiful love letter to Perth!

This is very funny: "There’s an old saying that ‘Perth is a great place to be a baby and have a baby, and not a lot in between.’ That’s not entirely fair, but I understand the gist. It’s a fantastic place to grow up. You’re outdoors a lot. You’re surrounded by nature. You learn independence early. Yes, every creature here can kill you, but you don’t really clock that until you move to America and mention a deadly animal casually, only to watch people react like you’ve described a scene from Jurassic Park."

Thank you for sharing!

Love

Myq

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Thank you for reading it, Myq. Glad you liked it 😊

Happy holidays

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Roberta McKay's avatar

Thanks for the post. My daughter will be here tomorrow from Australia. She is a teacher and her little sidekick, Maddi is coming with her. Nice to have her home for Christmas. Happy holidays young man. From Montana. 'Berta

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Ah that’s great! Glad to hear you’ll have some quality time together.

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Caroline Roth's avatar

Thanks for this. Very well written as always.

Enjoy your time “at home” and looking forward to seeing you in early ‘26.❤️

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Thank you Caroline. Happy Hannukah to you and Arnie.

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Tomversation's avatar

Is this a travelogue on why to never visit Perth? Perth and Adelaide always seemed interesting to me. Guess not.

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