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Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006


Sun Feature
Turning up the heat on Coolum Beach

By David Adams Richards

I suddenly discovered how much at home I felt. I was sitting on a chair in the outside bar of the restaurant called Thai Me Kangaroo Down, which specialized in Thai food. I was in Coolum Beach in Queensland, Australia. It was spring, so it was 26 C. To my way of thinking, being a Canadian, the weather was hot.



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