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Monday, 29 November, 2010 started out as a very good day. It was fine and sunny and I was driving to our state capital to meet my older son - Mr Twenty-Six - who was flying in from Sydney. I was wearing a suit and tie as I had an important business engagement en route. I can recall getting ready...
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There were four of us on the Great Nude Beach Expedition. My good friend Tony - a newly-graduated mechanical engineer - who at twenty-one was just a year younger than I; his two work colleagues, Peter and Gary, both diesel mechanics and both in their early twenties; and, of course, me. Only...
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I was twenty-six when I got married. It was undoubtedly the best day of my life. But the bachelor party that preceded the wedding remains as one of the worst experiences of my life. I can look back now and laugh. My children find the story amusing too, and of course there are the infamous...
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As I have previously pointed out, I am a fairly easy-going and most forgiving person. Why I even forgave my girlfriend for breaking a bed and burning down my toilet. At first I was a little resentful when she bullied me into being a psychiatric nurse during the summer break from university...
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At the conclusion of my first year law studies, my girlfriend - herself a Psychiatric Nursing Sister - persuaded me to work as a Trainee Psych Nurse until university recommenced some fourteen weeks later. This I did somewhat reluctantly - I would rather have spent the entire break surfing - but...
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As mentioned previously, my "wrecking ball" girlfriend Julia was a nursing sister at a psychiatric hospital close to where we both lived. At the end of my first year at university - when I was planning to do little other than swim, sunbathe and play tennis at every opportunity - Julia suggested...
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If I lie here, on the edge of sleep, And think of you long enough, Will that bring you back to me? If I imagine you with all my senses - The feel of you, the taste of you, the scent - Will that bring you back to me? Some nights, as my mind evades sleep, I remember how often I tried To reach...
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By the time I reached twenty-one, I had returned to Australia and taken up my place at university. Shortly before his death, my father purchased a two-bedroom unit for me that was within walking distance of the campus and I began the slow process of re-acclimatisation. It felt odd to be...
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During the winter of my second year in Spain, I became acquainted with several people who were in one way or another entangled in the web spun by my "cousin" Robert. Some of them I recall with affection. I do not remember Jose-Luis at all fondly. He was without doubt the most pallid, listless...
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After some fifteen months in Spain, my working life and social life began to change from bargain-basement stuff to something approaching 5th Avenue and even hedonism. When I first arrived in Barcelona, my friend Robert introduced me to everyone as his cousin - mi primo. At the time, I lacked...
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I had just celebrated my eighteenth Birthday when I first arrived in Barcelona. I have written previously of how I fell in love with this wonderful city and its people, but I made little mention of my sexual adventures there. A very good reason exists for that omission; the main event was my...
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The third tragedy during the period I managed a small remote mining townsite was undoubtedly the most tragic of them all and had an impact that resonates with me to this very day. It came during my last Christmas on the island. December is the height of the wet season and cyclones and...
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When you live in a very small mining community on a tiny island close to nowhere, then you eventually lose touch with life as it is lived in the big city. Almost every resident is young and there is no place for grandparents or extended family - only productive people can live there. In a few...
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The stories usually begin with me saying: "Once upon a time, there was a young and idealistic lad in his early twenties who found himself unexpectedly playing God in a tropical island paradise." I am no longer a young lad but I remain idealistic. I look back on those times through...
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One downside of my career has been the requirement to travel internationally at frequent intervals and for relatively brief periods. Some might think it fabulous to circumnavigate the globe on a monthly basis, spending, for example, two nights in Baltimore, one in London and another in...
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Last night I dined with my new Italian lady-friend, Maria. It was a wonderful evening and yet vastly different from anything I'd imagined beforehand. I arrived with a bouquet of red carnations. Until my friend opened her door I had considered the flowers a thing of beauty. Once I beheld Maria...
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This is something I have never attempted to put into words before. Not fully anyway. Sure there are some jottings in my journal of that time and a few scribbled notes on loose scraps of paper, but nothing that fully encapsulates my last days and hours with Jennifer. When the doctors have tried...
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One moment I was steering a shopping trolley through a crowded mall - cursing the fact that I had the one with the wobbly wheel ... again - and the next moment she was there, right in front of me; and the other shoppers, the noise and the smells all disappeared and there was only her. She sat...
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As the first year of the new millennium drew to a close, Challis Andrews - Charlie to his friends - was at the peak of his sexual powers and settling into his new life as a paid escort to rich, lonely or adventurous women. Charlie had several years to go before he would reach the zenith of his...
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When Challis Andrews emerged from detention at age seventeen, it was a condition of his parole that he reside with his "Aunt" Poppy and that he seek gainful employment or undertake vocational training. Challis - or Charlie as he is generally called - was comfortable living with Poppy. She was...

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