Bella Offner

And he just said, I just have to leave that in the past.

And I've moved on and tried to live my life as best I can.

It's terrible.

However, yeah, however people dull that pain or whatever it is that they do.

But yes, it's a long time now since I've spoken to him or done anything.

But the time I spoke in person was definitely my first year in Brisbane, back in 2001.

I know, because at that time...

I wasn't even positive if he'd shared it with his own family.

I think his parents just wondered why he started, just why he started going like, you know, out of control, like not going to school anymore and all of these sort of things and continued on that spiral with his life.

I can only assume at this point in life,

time he's possibly told them but I yeah I don't really have any proof on anything but at that time I was just unsure if even his parents knew but I think he felt safe enough to tell me because I was like by myself like not with Gus anymore yeah yeah he obviously needed to tell someone yeah but it's it's tragic it just yeah I don't even sort of have the proper words for it but yeah it's just

Tragic for this to be happening to someone's life.

Young boy.

Anyone, really.

Oh, yeah.

Definitely.

I completely did not know what to think of it because, you know, as we've spoken before, I'd

You know, I had thoughts about, you know, women and girls and hitchhikers or things like this.

But yeah, young man, never would have had any idea.

And as I say, that's why it just, yeah, I was physically ill after it.