"My family thought it was a crazy hobby that perhaps I might grow out of, " he says.

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"It's just a matter of when and where, and when I grow out of my body, " Tomic told the Melbourne Age last year.

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And what my colleagues and I have found is that they all grow out of one key truth: The world does not always have to be as it is today.

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