Star Love Stories in Pictures #626
"A Boy From Back Home" is a tender, quietly evocative story from Star Love Stories in Pictures #626, capturing the bittersweet pull between memory and new beginnings. Written and drawn with heartfelt detail by Victor Ramos, it follows Donna, a young woman raised on an Australian sheep station after leaving England as a child, as her past stirs anew when English geologists arrive at Piper's Peak. The emotional undercurrents are beautifully rendered, with Jordi Penalva’s cover capturing the story’s longing with a single, poignant image.
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Donna had come to Australia from England as a young orphan to live at her uncle's sheep station. Although she had been in Australia for seven years, she still missed her life in England. When some English geologists get her uncle's permission to study the mineral content of Piper's Peak, she becomes fascinated with one of them. She knows she isn't being fair to her Australian boyfriend, but she can't get the English boy out of her thoughts.
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