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Perth’s Self-Appointed Umbrella Surgeon Opens Field Hospital at Bus Station
Fictional Ina Gall reattaches spokes 'with love and Sellotape'.
Umbrellas, in triage. Photo: AshokaJegroo, “Broken umbrella after Sandy”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
PERTH — Fictional Ina Gall, 68, has set up a folding table offering emergency repairs to inside-out umbrellas. Success rate: 3%. Morale: 100%.
“Most of them don’t make it,” she said. “But they go out knowing they were loved.”
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