The Australian Women's Weekly

The long goodbye

We’d been getting ready for several weeks. Ruff Red and new bride Rebecca were on their way from New York to Sydney for a holiday and to recover from the hectic business of getting married. It was time for sun, sand and sea.

“There goes the car,” grumbled the MOTH (Man of the House). But I knew he’d already

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