No, it wasn’t 4 police call—it was my brother, Butch, who lived in Sydney, about a 3-hour drive south. It was also 3 o’clock in the morning. Something was 5 wrong. My sister, Susan, had died only 3 months earlier and I couldn’t help but think the 6 .
What happened next will 7 with me, always.
Butch had 8 because he was worried about a 9 man who had just telephoned him. Butch didn’t know him because the man called 10 . Apparently, he needed to talk to somebody because his wife had died recently and he felt that he couldn’t go on 11 . He was planning to kill himself and decided to let somebody 12 . Butch tried to keep him talking, to learn anything about him. The man confided that he loved 13 and said that he had his own boat, named after his wife, the Laura, and that he lived at Fingal Bay. It just so 14 that Fingal Bay was only a 10-minute drive from where we were in Nelson Bay.
Butch wanted Peter to see if he could go and find him 15 anything drastic happened. Peter left almost immediately and, 16 , was able to find the man because his boat, the Laura, was parked in front of his home. The man was extremely 17 to see Peter and admitted that he had made the call. They spoke for a while and the man agreed that he would 18 counselling and would not do anything 19 . He was amazed that his telephone call was to someone who not only knew the area, but who knew the local 20 as well!
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