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At her first rehearsal with the Australian Children’s Choir, Sascha Davis knew no one and felt nervous.

It was 1987 and she was seven years old. Then she spied a smiling girl, about her age, called Kate Howard.

“She tapped the chair next to her and said come and sit next to me,” Davis recalls.

The girls sang together for the next decade and became lifelong friends.

“We got on like a house on fire,” Davis says. “We went to different schools and it was only the choir we had in common, but we’re still as close today as…

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