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Sunday - Brave Heart

Television (Excerpts) – 2007

A place famous for just one thing, one event: the Gympie Music Muster. For one week of the year townies go bush, and bushies go feral.
– Reporter Janet McIntyre introduces Australia's Gympie Music Muster
Jools and Lynda Topp: guests of the Gympie Muster for the fifth time.
– Reporter Janet McIntyre on the Topp Twins performing in Australia
A farrier, she maintains the hoof health of around 250 Auckland horses, and she barely stopped work, even while she was in chemo.
– Reporter Janet McIntyre on how horses were part of Jools' healing process
...I'm not scared of death now. I've looked at it in the eye.
– Jools Topp, near the end of this story
...Australians relate to it really well. It's our down to earth humour, isn't it?
– A Gympie Music Muster audience member comments on The Topp Twins performance
...Is she going to get through this, you know. Am I going to lose my sister was what was going through my mind.
– Lynda Topp describes how she was feeling during Jool's treatment
I chose not to do the radiation . . . zapping me with radiation, that's just going to burn all my tissue. And I just thought I don't know whether I can handle that.
– Jools Topp on ignoring some of the medical advice of her doctors
I think it made me go harder actually. Sometimes I think "wow, I'm really glad I got cancer". Because it made think "wow, what do I want to do in my life?"
– Jools Topp is asked whether cancer stopped her