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Vanishing Cousins Episode 1: The Vanishing

The West Australian
VideoThe scene is set in the ‘Puberty Blues’ era of Scarborough Beach and the hugely popular White Sands Hotel, where Raelene and Yvonne are last seen talking to three scruffy strangers at the Sunday session.

Social commentator Jane Caro describes the 1970s beach culture and why young women had to be vigilant against predatory behaviour.

In the last ever sighting of the teenagers, the doorman at The White Sands recounts seeing the cousins talking to older, scruffy strangers who were out of place amongst the beach crowd.

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