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Wiluna
1934-1938Simona wanted to leave immediately with Gino, although he had proposed going to Gwalia alone for at least a couple of weeks to look for a job and somewhere to live. They set off by train with two full trunks and renewed enthusiasm for each other. In the train, their bodies jostling together as the carriage swayed back and forth, they could barely contain their desire and couldn’t wait to be alone in private.
Gino found that not much had changed in the town of Gwalia. His wife had never been to the interior of the continent and was just as dismayed as he had been at first. He was surprised to find himself using the same words to console her as his father had used with him years earlier. They booked into a hotel, where the only limit to the full gratification of their
