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A photo of two AFL players mid-game. One is preparing to handball, the other is grabbing him.
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A talent and a team player, Nick Lowden excelled at Aussie Rules. But the knocks, bumps, hits and collisions were adding up.

A woman with a red top and sunglasses with red lenses places her hand on another woman's shoulder
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As "narcissist" becomes the catch-all insult of the social media age, here is the crucial difference between everyday selfishness and a serious personality disorder.

A small, dirty knit jacket laid flat on tissue paper.
An archival still from a video shows a mother with short dark hair, holding her young son as she speaks to a journalist.
An older photo shows a mother with her infant daughter standing on a red rock in the outback, the baby girl is wearing pink.
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Forty years ago, the chance discovery of a bloodied matinee jacket unravelled a murder conviction. Now, that evidence lives inside a national museum's collection that's too sensitive for public display.

Guy Montgomery beams as he stands in front of the Guy Mont set in front of a podium bearing a cup, purse and bucket.
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Feel free to exhale that breath you've been holding in — it's Sunday and that means it's time to get spelling again.

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