THIS IS MY LIFE
B Y LY N F R E N C H
I
was born in 1966 under an apple
tree somewhere in the idyllic
outdoors. Nah, only kidding! I was
actually born at a little rural town
in South East Queensland, and have lived
on the land all my life, mainly on isolated
cattle stations. There were very few good
years during my childhood, and I can’t
remember anything that I could call fun.
So, from an early age I started planning
how I was going to run away and become
a rich millionaire. I never wanted to get
married because I thought maybe all
men were assholes. I didn’t want children
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because if they had a childhood like mine,
it wasn’t worth it.
From a very early age, maybe four
or five, I was driving machinery: by the
age of 10 I was driving trucks, dozers
and everything else in between. I loved
machinery, loved getting my hands dirty,
loved showing men that I was equal and
could do it just as good as them. I liked
working cattle but hated mustering.
I had virtually no education… let’s say
limited. I went to school sometimes, but
work was considered more important than
education. In the first seven years of school,
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