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A shot in the dark, ancient dump by @dollyfewson

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I turned 31 this weekend in the Eora nation with @orb_________0o and all my dearest dearest @jeddadaisyculley @danial__danial__danial @kittycallaghan @gio__paradiso @lucianlightning @psymon__stez @chorusofvoices it was all love and celebration. @orb_________0o and I lived here for years without ever having met except once. We shared our old haunts and old memories and we were held and hosted by the biggest hearts. My sweet sister @hannah.ballistic who had a birthday the day after mine is about to birth another Gemini into our family. My twin cousins share my sisters birthday, the year of mine. Gemini’s are information sharers and it used to come so naturally to share online all my daily details. I haven’t known what to share the last few years and lately, especially, I have just wanted to share other people’s posts and things I want people to know. There is so much violence and sadness in the world. People are angry and confused and frightened. My only birthday wish is freedom from persecution for everyone’s family. I hope you are informed, I hope you are empathetic, I hope you know it could be you. It could be your family and in the only way that matters, it is. I’m so grateful for my 31 years. I refuse to complain about getting older. I’m one of the lucky ones, I’m one of the lucky ones, I’m the luckiest. If I died tomorrow as many will, I want everyone to know I’m happy and that I am grateful and that I am love. by @dollyfewson

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Scary and Scared/ Pierrot 2022 by @dollyfewson

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4 years ago

saddest clown by @dollyfewson

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30 yo looks like knowing what is most joyful for me, knowing who are real friends and knowing what kind of love I want and who can give it to me. I’m almost three years sober now and have never been happier. Sariah found peace in her death but I found it in my life. Later this month I am getting married for the second time, but for the first time to someone who loves me. To my love @orb_________0o and all of my angels who made my day so special I’m so grateful. by @dollyfewson

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3 years ago

She Holds the Cure oil crayon on paper by @dollyfewson

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Dear @orb_________0o may we fully commit to creating a safe space in each other to always tell the truth, call each other out with compassion and may we view conflict as an opportunity. May we stay in our kindness for each others wounded selves and be champions for each others vulnerability. Staying blessed with and by you, always Bella, Ilysm by @dollyfewson

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We had a dinner party @groundhouse107r with my family and dearest friends to celebrate our marriage @revelry.photography took these beautiful photos of us and so did our pals @gabbystein and @kartika__laili__ahmad , @anamundistudio did our flowers and my Dad cooked for us. My Nana Judy came from Fremantle, her first trip since my Pop past away. She did a speech and so did half of everyone there along with my angels @kittycallaghan and @gwilder____ who couldn’t make it. There was heaps of tears and laughter, it was full of emotion. This is my second marriage and my third love but my first time finding peace. I hope every one who wants it, finds what I have found now in my romance and my friendships. Thank you again to our best man @gillielove and every one who blessed us with their time and travel. I’m so grateful for everything. taken in Tintenbar, New South Wales by @dollyfewson

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Robin and I got married in our Meanjin home with all our friends who could make the trip. I moved to this city to find a quieter, easier life and found it with you, @orb_________0o To all of our friends who made it special, @gabbystein who took these photos of us, @tonyalbert, @waterporrfin.jacet for our rings @echoandbounce_ for our stunning instal and hosting kickons- Thank you in thousands. Our wedding week was peace because of your love for our love. All of our happy memories of June are gifts that we will keep forever. Ilys taken in Meanjin by @dollyfewson

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It was my only sisters wedding on the 8th of October. She married my new brother Jumsies and we celebrated with our family and loves at home on the property. My two, small nibblings Pursy and Sorrel danced all night too. I made a speech about their love and it went like this 🕯. I’m so happy to be celebrating my sister and James’ love. I have known James, almost as long as Hannah has know him. What a genuinely kind, good and funny person.

I have been lucky to have seen most of their love story unfold. Or at least, as much as you can see from the out side looking in. Its a beautiful love. And a true one.

When you have loved and lost its is easy to become cynical about love.

It’s becomes hard to see it not as a fate resigned but as a possibility. I have forced myself to believe that one can find true love and knowing Hannah and James makes it feel real to me - that some of us, the lucky ones will strike a perfect match. Love is often described with fire metaphors; so I’ll follow suit. Some beautiful loves are a flame that can loose, bushfires like the loves I have known, while others; carefully lit and maintained, can be a candle in a still room.

A small, resilient, stationary flame that lights the dark corners and makes even shadows into something beautiful. It’s not the fireplace fire, that is there to warm the whole house - that must be fed and put out and restarted. It is a patient light that endures. It balances weightless on the wick that is trust and certainly and kindness. This kind of light is miraculous when you see it. It’s the kind of light people use to describe god with because it is sacred-
It’s the kind of love Hannah has found in James.
That they have made their home and family out of.

It is this kind of love that requires a ritual and a party to acknowledge because it’s the meeting of all the banality and mundanity of daily life and the Devine parts. Of living the ups and downs of each moment, each day, or a lifetime- choosing love, with one infinitely precious person. I’m so happy they chose each other. taken in Tintenbar, New South Wales by @dollyfewson

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Do you think you should donate something? by @dollyfewson

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Allow me by @dollyfewson

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