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HOLIDAY HORROR How Caroline’s AUSSIE DREAM lives on

My little sister Caroline just radiated sunshine. Always cheerful and talkative – she was also born with itchy feet.

‘I’m going to see the world,’ she announced to my mum Marjorie and me one day, when she was a teen.

We weren’t surprised.

Mum worked in Italy in her 20s and our dad, Alan, had lived in the US when he was younger.

Travel ran in her blood!

Intelligent, Caroline planned to study to be a psychologist – perfect for her

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