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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 One‘Oh yes, she fitted in real well, yes.’ Daisy smiles at me.‘And were there any differences in the ways she was living, like did she bring any of herEnglish ways of living?’ I am fishing for the exotic, that point of interest that will make agood story.‘No, I just think she lived like a normal life. You know, she used to eat what Aboriginalpeople give her, and lived on the government rations. She didn’t want to get the white rations[or] get on a pension or anything. She refused or something: they wanted to shift her toBeltana but she didn’t want to, she wanted to stay there…she didn’t want to go, she stayedthere and that’s why she picked her place to be buried where Jim Page is.’‘So she chose..?’ I have a habit, I discover, of not finishing my sentences. There was noneed.‘Yes she chose that.’ 245 And there is my answer.Nepabunna, August, 1959The sturdy corrugated iron shed to the east of the Church is as empty now as the dark brownhut over the hill, near the creek. Its flattened tins have already lifted off the walls here andthere, but the cast iron camp oven is still stubbornly sitting in the fireplace where John andRaymond left it. They had thought their mother would not need that, anticipating the newwood stove the mission promised for her new home.170