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My friend Blanche d’Alpuget often spoke to me about death. She oncelikened it to ‘untying a million little knots’ | Derek Rielly
The woman so pivotal in Australian literature and politics blew into my orbit in a tornado of Doris Day hair and Sophia Loren lips in the winter of 2016
This is a source-based summary, not original reporting by Ebenezer journalists. Source: The Guardian · Original byline: Derek Rielly. Ebenezer published 10 Sept 2026, 04:27 am. Editorial policy.
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Australia — Derek Rielly