Gregory Rogers
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"Gregory John Rogers" was an illustrator and writer of children's books, especially picture books. He was the first Australian to win the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the CILIP/Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. The book was Way Home by the Australian writer Libby Hathorn, published in the U.K. by Andersen Press in 1994. In the unnamed city, a boy makes his way home at night and adopts a stray cat en route. The "picture book for older readers" was controversial on grounds both that it was "hardboiled" and that it "romanticised the plight of the homeless".

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The breaks were clean and uniform.

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And then as I looked around and noticed many other stones, all broken in the same way, I was sickened as I realized that this was an act of vandalism. When I collected myself, I was determined to figure out how to repair the stones, and help the other families repair theirs as well.

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This might help them understand just how different things were around here back then. My relatives had rested peacefully for more than 100 years in that little cemetery, which begs the question: Was it just dumb luck that they had never been disturbed before? Or is this evidence that our society's most basic standards of human decency are eroding?

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