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White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume One Creative Writing Component: Excerpted Chapters from Volume Three Appendix Onecurious to read whatever might have been written about her friend. ‘Ah, well there’s a story.Do you want another cup of tea?’‘Yes please,’ says Mary, at once, holding out her empty cup to Mrs Forbes, who has stoodup. ‘What’s that story then?’ Mary asks, watching Mrs Forbes’s back as she fiddles overpouring the billy into the cups perched on the edge of the fireplace.‘Huh. I said I would write it all down one day, but I never have.’ Mrs Forbes places thesteaming cups down on the table, and pushes the sugar bag towards Mary. She sits back intoher chair. ‘Well, I come out on the Oruba, its last voyage in fact…’UAM(SA) Inc., Adelaide, 1954Pastor Samuels continues his weekly missives, but with a certain persuasion to bring theEatons time at Nepabunna to a close.Re you folk coming down, I do pray that you won’t leave it too long I really feel youshould try and get away just as soon as possible for your own sakes, you must not be sillyby trying to stick it out too long, we do want you to enjoy the rest of your life withsomething like good health, so be a good boy and come away soon, that sounds awfulseeing we have said all the way along that we did not want you to leave, but seeing theLord has provided for you, we must not go against His plans and thereby upset your futurehealth, I am now being a daddy towards you don’t you think, anyway somebody needs totake you in hand… 223156…I feel that perhaps if Brother Hathaway could take charge now and relieve you of theresponsibility and let you get on with your own packing etc and assisting Brother J with rethe mine, now if you will agree just inform Brother H and he and we will know where westand, at present I have been put to it to decide to whom I should send this to whom Ishould send that, it would make it clear for all concerned. Of course that would not meantake charge of you and your wife you would understand that, I don’t mean to put you twounder someone else but the work of the Station, then Brother H will know what to do re