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SILVER LININGS

If you subscribe to Winston Churchill’s theory that a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity while an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty, Melbourne interior designer Vicki Dreier is a born optimist. In 2016, as her family grappled with their father’s terminal illness, they made a decision to spend Christmas together in the Grampians.

Vicki and her family had grown up in Horsham, about

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