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- ↑ Cosic, Miriam (12 June 2010). "The parallel worlds of Barbara Trapido". The Australian. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
Her mother was a shy woman, half-German and half-Danish, who had come from Berlin ... Trapido's father ... grew up in The Hague
- ↑ Barbara Trapido Archived October 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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