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A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR THE LEAN YEARS BY KATE WILCOX.
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t’s three days before your next Centrelink payment comes in and you have five dollars left in the world.Your rent is paid, and you have enough pasta and tinned tuna to make sure you won’t starve until payday.You debate spending your remaining money on bread, of which you have run out, or a good coffee, one of which you have not had in a long time, but decide these are not quite necessities, and so you spend your final five dollars on a train ticket to your unpaid industryrelated internship.