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Living Memory Finalist
This is Eleni Pringle, aged seventeen at the time of the photograph. She was a casual at Megalong Books on the main street of Leura, New South Wales. So many young people were forced out of their jobs during the autumn shutdown in the Blue Mountains. Eleni, though, was kept on the bookshop's books – an asset retained. One could say she was a sign of hope for those with so very much left to do.
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