There is a change between Greg and Pauline's relationship. Oma, Floss and Mimi started walking away which left Pauline and Greg to walk around by themselves. The change between their relationship is from cousins to cousins in love. They are walking down a path hand in hand. " We went down some steps and our hands just brushed together so I held onto her fingers to see what she would do and she didn't try to snatch her hand away. That was how we walked along. Hand in hand. I started to wonder about it. She was my cousin and everything. But I didn't suppose holding hands with your cousin was incest or anything. ' Have you got a girlfriend?' She said. 'Nah.' 'Why not?' 'Who'd have me?' I said and laughed. 'I would,' she said and she didn't laugh at all. She was serious. " Page 112. Oma used to live in Paddington and she wanted to go see the house she grew up in. They went to see it but it had been knocked down and had been rebuilt into a fancy mansion. The change is the house and how it's the same address but a different house. " After about ten minutes walking we stopped outside one of the houses. ' I used to live here,' Oma said. It was pretty impressive. There was a big stoop, fancy plastering with iron lace and a wrought-iron fence. 'Jeez you must have been rich,' Pauline said. 'Oh it didn't look like this then,' Oma said. 'When we lived here, they were talking about pulling it down it was so run-down. It was condemned.' " Page 113. There is change in Oma's life. She dies as soon as they get home from Sydney. She took every one to Sydney so it was something to remember her by. There is change when Greg is 15. He has a new girlfriend called Tanya she lives 2 streets away. He has gone from Pauline to Tanya in 1 year.
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