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Downing a beer, I sighed.

What’s the point in anything? I thought.

As the walls closed in and loneliness bore down, I coped the only way I knew.

She’ll be right, I told myself, taking another swig.

But life was anything but all right.

As a fly-in fly-out (FIFO) mining worker, I’d loved my job at first. I felt like I’d won the lottery when I first saw my payslip. But working long hours for eight days straight, coupled with drinking

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