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Story SeriesA Mile in My Shoes

Carly Dudley

Collected in partnership with Perth Festival and The Empathy Museum, A Mile in My Shoes is an extraordinary collection of stories that give us a glimpse into the lives of Western Australians from all walks of life.

When you have just ten hours with your child, you can’t put the feeling into words. Carly has done something truly beautiful, offering over 24,000 tributes to children who never got to grow up.

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Copyright © 2015 Carly Dudley

This story was collected by the Centre for Stories for the Empathy Museum’s A Mile in my Shoes installation as part of Perth Festival 2015. For reproduction and distribution of this story/image please contact the Centre for Stories.

 

OTHER STORIES
A young man wearing glasses smiling by a bookshelf
Jay Anderson
Jay Anderson spent the majority of his life in Kalgoorlie—a red-dirt town full of miners who are seemingly, more often than not, too-pissed-to-piss-straight.
Photo of two men embracing while looking at the camera and smiling. They are standing in front of the ocean at sunset.
Benjamin Fosbery and Eduardo Araújo – #loveislove
In the wake of the postal survey on same sex marriage in Australia, we were privileged to sit down with Ben and Eduardo. Their story reminds us why we support same sex marriage, who will be impacted by the result, and what it means to same sex couples to have the right to get married.
Angel Lee – I Am Brave, I Am Strong, I Can Do This
“I’d just got my life back. I’d just mentally got my head back on track. And then it was all taken away from me.”
A young man wearing a beige blazer smiling by a bookshelf
Emery Wishart
Emery Wishart is a pre-service primary school teacher with a passion for supporting trans and gender diverse community development.
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