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| | Same time next year - Victoria - Australia - Travel - theage.com.au |
 | | It's time away from missed calls on the mobile, from the boofhead on the train bellowing the fascinating details of his working week into his Nokia, this desire we all have to be constantly, obsessively available. |
 | | Now, when most of the group arise, hardly any of the day's over, which means plenty of time for a two-hour walk through the bush, a trip to Lorne, coffee on the balcony with the parrots and the lorikeets with their ridiculously vibrant colours and audacious manners and splitting up the weekend papers. |
 | | Twenty-five years later, amid the blue gums and the koalas, the talk was still of music, but there were other pressing topics: kids, careers, schools, holidays, the ebbs and flows. |
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