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Pfull Stop Madeleine Pfull

r commuters in Sydney, 12 June 2015 was a sombre day. For it was on this day that the free, tabloid newspaper released their last published edition. For those who don’t know, was a pithy commuter newspaper that’s content comprised of “celebrity gossip” (if you regard what Neil almost always guaranteed one to bray like a donkey trying to visualise the contours of “Pauline, Platform 25” who was overheard saying “leave your husband and become a chocolate like me!” Did she identify as a chocolate? Was she part of a roller-skating derby called The Chocolates? I’ll never know. What I do know is that Pauline, Platform 25’s mythical facial features will remain tattooed in my imagination for life. If you’d like to imagine her too, think of a Madeleine Pfull painting.

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