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Peel Street Holly Stewart and punishing poor families throughJanuary Melbourne hot mid summer. The holidays fizzle in a kind of endless dryness. A heat haze off the bitumen and the ache of the afternoon sun. A bunch of kids starts grade six at Peel Street School. It's the high tide of the post war migrant boom; every term there's someone new from England Ireland Italy Greece Germany Hungary Holland Russia It's a magical year the last year of innocence a year poised between new growth and the hardening of a