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Ex-Pats - Bill McQuaid.

This week, the Gazette launches an occasional series looking at the fortunes of people who have taken the decision to leave Galloway and try their luck elsewhere.

We start with regular letters correspondent Bill McQuaid, of Bondi, Australia. Here, Bill - who still gets his copy of the Gazette sent to him each week - tells how life has taken him from Sorbie to a sunny spot in Oz...

I WAS born in Sorbie almost 70 years ago to teenage parents.

We lived for my first couple of years with my widowed grandmother in the house that still stands fornent the Sorbie war memorial.

My father soon went off to the war and I was left behind to look after my mother for a time. ...

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