Douglas Robertson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Even though they were, they never properly figured in the survival, the trial of the survival, you know, because they were too young.
They were being looked after by everybody else.
They kept us honest.
They gave us a reason to survive, a reason to get back home.
We had to save them because they were so young.
They were only 12 years old, you know.
I hadn't lived a life, you know.
He hadn't lived a life either.
We were young and our parents, even Robin, we regarded as a brother, a son.
My dad did not regard him as an outsider.
He said, he's here with us.
He is a part of the family.
But, you know,
We were adventurous and adventurous take their chances.
And so our life afterwards was a bit like that.
This had happened to us.
We had survived.
We felt extremely lucky, incredibly lucky that we'd survived that, that we were very proud of the fact that it was not largely due to our own devices that we had survived.