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An outback love story

HEN VICKI LANGLEY finished a hairdressing course at Adelaide TAFE in 1986, she headed overseas with friends and landed a hairdressing job in London. On her return to Adelaide in the spring of 1987, she naturally fell back into the company of Tim Kernick,

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