Hannah Grace, Ocean Shores
These last years have been tough. Drought, and then terrible fires and the coronavirus and this disgusting homicidal mental case in Russia invading Ukraine because his playground isn’t big enough and he needs more oligarchical power (and money). Poor little overly potty-trained demanding maniac. And now we’ve just had the biggest rain event in 70 years, which has affected so many people that we care about. It’s been a pretty condensed and hard time for all of us.
Fair dinkum, I reckon without the SES and firies and nurses and ambos and police we’d be stuffed. Many, many thanks to them. Thank you, you lot, for being there for us.


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