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Story SeriesA Mile in My Shoes

Wolfgang Bylsma

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.

Wolfgang Bylsma is Editor in Chief and Founding Manager of Gestalt Publishing, Australia’s largest independent graphic novel publishing house.

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Copyright © 2015 Wolfgang Bylsma

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.

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Sheep in a pen
Anthea Brown
Anthea comes full circle and brings her life of learning and new experience to her career as a returned farmer.
Clouds
Karen Lang
Imagine you're holidaying in Paris and you get a phone call: your daughter has been murdered. This is exactly what Karen Lang experienced. Karen works through her grief by meeting the woman who took her daughter's life. She reflects on her journey of understanding, empathy and, finally, forgiveness.
Joan Foley
Living in Port Hedland and working as a nurse, she fostered a young Aboriginal girl who temporarily entered into a grief-driven, coma-like state following the death of her father, where she was able to connect with Aboriginal spirits on what Joan describes as a “soul journey”.
Beautiful mountains
Margaret Watroba
Margaret Watroba fell in love with the mountains and dreamed of climbing the Himalayas as a young girl — she has since attempted to summit Everest Base Camp four times.
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