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In a lifetime we inhabit a world of different places. I spent my adolescence in Glen Waverley, where you tended to be at least within long walking distance of your friends, and where there was effectively no public transport: school buses once an hour. Behind it all lay the belief in decentralising Melbourne – the football at Waverley, the Chadstone shopping centre, Monash.

Back then, what I knew of Hawthorn was its football club, which was the funny anomaly of a middle-class club trying to make its way in a…

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