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What's Your Story?: Circus Mum

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Circus Mum

ABC | August 23, 2013

Personal and social capability

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Alice Cadwell shows us how she juggles running a community circus and being a mum, as we go behind the scenes during performance day for Spaghetti Circus. Alice says "sometimes it's tricky to keep all the balls in the air".

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Alice Cadwell shows us how she juggles running a community circus and being a mum, as we go behind the scenes during performance day for Spaghetti Circus. Alice says "sometimes it's tricky to keep all the balls in the air".

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