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[Last lines] Matilda Naimo:
[Voice over]
My mother's name is Dolores Mary Naimo. My father's is Joseph Francis Naimo. My father worked with the Australians who gave him the name 'Matilda'. He gave it to my mother for her to give me, and so they called me Matilda and I came to be known as Matilda
[Voice over]
My mother's name is Dolores Mary Naimo. My father's is Joseph Francis Naimo. My father worked with the Australians who gave him the name 'Matilda'. He gave it to my mother for her to give me, and so they called me Matilda and I came to be known as Matilda
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and my Christian name Philip
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my infant tongue could make of both names
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nothing longer or more explicit than Pip
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So I called myself Pip and came to be called Pip '
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Movie Summary
As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.
