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‘WE'VE SAVED EACH OTHER’

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Louisa Hope can still remember the moment she first saw the man better known as Officer A.

It was December 16, 2014, and she was one of 18 hostages being held by a lone terrorist in the Lindt cafe in Sydney's Martin Place.

Officer A, or Ben, was one of two Tactical Operations Unit (TOU) officers who shot and killed Man Haron Monis after a 16-hour stand-off.

Sitting beside each other at Louisa's Sydney home eight years later, it's hard to imagine the

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