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...thought must have travelled down into the collective psyche because someone found it and these days you can buy my idea in specially marked cellophane bags.
Instead of acting on it myself and making a fortune, my mind whirled off into the complexities of dustpan and brush, and then I edged each Rinso-whitened nappy between the rubber rollers of the magical wringer of my fabulous new secondhand washing machine. At each turn of the handle I marvelled that I no longer had to wash and wring the clothes by hand, though mine were large and capable.
My reward for a sparkling house and two clean and sleeping babies was to fish about among the coloured jellybeans in the jam jar for a black one. I considered these bean-shaped sweets harmless to the health because they were sold in chemist shops.
Jellybeans were as much a part of my life as ice cream and apples.
The only thing I ever won as a child was a big peanut butter jar of jellybeans of all colours when I was in sixth class at St Mary's School, Bogong Valley, NSW, Australia, The World, The Universe, which was what I wrote on all my exercise books.
The only other things I've ever won are two poetry prizes and a load of firewood, so I figure jellybeans must have some place in the grand rewards scheme.
They are by now archetypal.
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