"I didn't get a text like we were meant to, so I had to watch the announcement - it was the most nerve-wracking hour of my life, " he said.

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"I got a bit tearful, I had to text my resignation, " she said.

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We were online here in Perth waiting and waiting but it wasn't until I received a text message the morning after that I knew that I had been allocated to my franchise team.

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And here I had this opportunity to tell a story not in one dimension, but in three - a video, still photography and text dispatches - and then, to deliver it all on the Internet, where it could be archived forever.

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