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(Recycled from the House of Love)

Today is National Sorry Day.

Some Australians will take a moment today to make a personal apology to the ’stolen generations’, the thousands of aboriginal Australians who were forcibly removed from their families from the beginning of European settlement in Australia in 1788 until as late as 1970.

"… I just couldn’t stop crying. All I could see was our little camp. My baby brother’s bottle was laying on the ground. And I could see where my brother and sisters were making mud pies in a Sunshine milk tin that we used for our tea or soup. I didn’t know where my parents were. I was sad, crying, lost; didn’t know what I was going to do …"

— from Rose’s story in Bringing Them Home

Below is my personal apology.

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