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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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Paddi Creevey
Paddi Creevey spent a large part of her youth as a nun, before stepping away from religion to become a social worker and eventually going on to be a politician.
Three women and a child sitting at the beach
Carly Dudley
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.
A woman walking through an urban setting
Saige Divine
Saige used to work as a sex worker, though she preferred the term “sexual healer.” She believes that at the core, everybody just wants to feel loved and cared for, and being able to provide her clients with that is what was truly rewarding. 
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”.
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