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This is Not a Eulogy for Hong Kong

This is Not a Eulogy for Hong Kong

Elizabeth Flux, Kill Your Darlings, July 2020

'Hong Kong has slipped out of the news in Australia, and I hate that it has taken a story that hits home for me to realise just how truly devastating that is – to watch as a critical chapter in your life plays out silently off-stage. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to live there; to see it unfold up close. From afar, I don’t really know what else to do other than to keep talking about it, keep reading about it – keep trying to stop one more story disappearing into the sea of horror that is 2020.'

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