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Belinda Hawkins 

Secrets in the suitcase that still haunt Anglican church sexual abuse survivor Beth Heinrich

Beth Heinrich was sexually abused in the 1950s when she was a teenager. (ABC: Australian Story/Simon Winter)

Beth Heinrich sits on a battered, brown suitcase, sifting through the scores of "love letters", photographs and trinkets that make up the patchwork of her life.

"I'm not ready to put them on a bonfire yet," she tells Australian Story. "They remind of something nice that could have happened that didn't."

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