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The girl who ran away to sea — the making of Kathryn

05.20.2021 - By ABC listenPlay

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Working as a deckhand on a fishing trawler became the refuge Kathryn Heyman needed from the wreckage of her early life. Hitchhiking to Darwin, then working in the Timor Sea, far from her old life, helped her remake herself (CW: Sexual assault)

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