Dominic

For those who don't know me, I'm Jack Steele, one of the sons of our beloved house that once was The Avenue.

It's hard to talk about this, as I know you will be standing tall and it will be us who chose to walk away.

This house was the rock of our family.

As I look around...

I see so many people who were touched by its kindness, by the love it had for us, the tears, the heartbreak, the one night stands, the benders, the poo room, the undies and the toothbrushes stolen from your son Dom, the baby talk from Grant and Eve about who was going to have the last scoop of ice cream.

The alarm clock of banging pots and pans from Liam at 5.30 and the forever annoyance and sus downward dog back stretches from Falcon half nude in the morning.

True story.

I remember that.

Whenever I was feeling down, you were always the place for me to rely on, the safe place for us all to just be ourselves and get away from the busyness of today's world.

This street is the reason we are talking on this podcast today.

It is the reason our lives became what is now bigger than we all could have dreamed of.

It started with just a few mates dancing down the street with nothing to lose in life, to then getting a few million views hours later, being stuck inside for 12 months straight with COVID, with nothing else to do but play COD, eat shocking home-cooked meals and annoy the shit out of each other.

You gave us life, something to live for.

a sacred haven of friendship and happiness.

This street and house built the foundations of our life that we would promise to continue for the rest of time in respect of you.

I'm forever grateful to call you my home.

Even though this is the end, you will always be in my heart.

I love you forever and always.

So, yeah.

That was really good.