This love story starts with two students from Tasmania writing letters to each other in the late 1980s into the 1990s to share their devotion to the sports-comedy radio show, The Coodabeen Champions. Mark Green and Rowanne Brown had grown up in neighbouring suburbs, but it wasn’t until they were both at the University of Tasmania that they became friends.
“We played sport together, and we’d just sit and have a chat. There always seemed to be something a little bit special between us,” Mark recalls.
Row was studying for an Arts/Law degree, but most importantly she was the type of person who loved to help others, and she did it behind the scenes, without fanfare.
“She was always there for those who needed help, but in a very gentle, quiet, understated way,” Mark says. “I remember we were working on a bit of uni stuff together and I just looked across and
