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Our bub’s a GOLD MINER!

Clasping the metal detector tightly, I placed it on the red earth and paced around.

With the sun beating down, I peered at the scorched dusty ground.

Then, as the metal detector beeped loudly, my eyes lit up.

Stooping down excitedly, I dusted away the earth. A shiny, lustrous gold nugget twinkled in the sunshine.

‘Got one!’ I cheered to my husband Levi, 30.

I’d struck gold!

Coming from Fremantle, WA, my grandpa Max, had been a miner.

When I got together with Levi in 2017, we discovered that his grandad Don had

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