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It's 1793 and my sister has been sentenced to transportation to the Australian penal colonies... all for stealing some cloth. Aside from being arrested and convicted like her, will I see her again? Can we send letters to each other? Or will she be gone from our lives forever?

by /u/StareyedInLA in /r/AskHistorians

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