Kay Hall

They didn't need that.

But I loved them dearly, and I worked so hard to give them every opportunity.

We both did.

But I think because I was so – I was still carrying all the secret about Jonathan, my son.

I didn't mention that that's his name that I found out later.

But I had never told the girls.

I had never told anybody that I knew after I had relinquished him.

So I moved to another town.

met new people, never mentioned it.

It was this terrible secret that I was carrying.

And I think that you want to talk about life lessons is that secrets are really bad.

Yeah, they make you sick and they make you not be yourself.

And I just kept holding this awful pain.

It felt like I had a box inside me and it had a lid with lots of nails that I had to keep nailing down.

So when the girls were in their late primary years, I was becoming more unhappy with my life because we lived in a small town.

I was working part-time in different jobs, but I really wanted to be happy.

learning more I wanted I just wanted to get out of it I felt like I need to get out of this place yeah and we were struggling you know there was we're always struggling for money so we just made this momentous decision to leave and go and live in Perth yeah and we didn't even know why we just went we sold everything and we took our girls across the Nullarbor and you thought let's go to Perth did you have any friends or relatives here we didn't even know what it looked like

We set up and we bought our own business.

We did.

And I went to university and I took five years to do a social work degree.