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It’s never TOO LATE for love

As my wonderful wife Judy, then 76, lay in the hospital bed, I could see the exhaustion in her eyes.

Unable to talk, she used an iPad to communicate.

With our family gathered round, desperately sick Judy had things to say.

Dad will get very lonely, very quickly, she typed to our children, Natalie, Leanne and Paul. If he finds somebody you are to let him.

That was Judy – always thinking of everyone else.

Fighting in the Vietnam War, I’d flown home to Perth and,

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