The summer that changed everything

The summer that changed everything
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Series
In this Herald series, we asked prominent artists, comedians, authors and journalists to write about their “summer that changed everything”.
Snow bound for icy Moscow winter from Sydney summer heat
Deborah Snow worked as a Moscow correspondent at a time when the Soviet Union had just dissolved, Boris Yelstin was in power and tensions were high. It was also where she met her future husband on an unlikely helicopter day trip.
- by Deborah Snow
The summer a shaggy Mr Optimism arrived
Monte, a golden-haired cavoodle, was born in Orange one shimmering, hot January before he headed west – Sydney’s inner west, otherwise known as Cavoodle Country.
- by Michaela Whitbourn