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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
And so once I'd written the book, it was so important to me that I got Patria's approval on the book.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
That was the one that mattered to me.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
The publisher was one thing, but Patria was the final word for me.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
And she's just so thrilled that Australia now knows her great aunt.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
Well, she was 54 years of age and she'd been unwell for a little while and her passing absolutely threw William away.
Conversations
How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
As a doctor, he wanted desperately to be the one to be able to save her and he couldn't and it completely broke him.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
And so eight days after Evelyn passed away, William passed away.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
Where are they buried?
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
Well, the extraordinary thing is they are buried at Waverley Cemetery in Sydney, which is a place I'd never been to before.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
You know, I've flown over it hundreds of times and always seen what a magnificent place it was there by the sea.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
But I discovered in my research with Petria that
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
that William was the one who chose Evelyn's final resting spot.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
And he chose it because it faced the sea.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
Because Evelyn never lost her love of the water, rowing upon it, travelling across it.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
Despite what happened that night with the Titanic,
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
The sea was what she always loved, so he made sure that her resting spot faces the sea at Waverley Cemetery.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
And I never, in all the time that I was researching and writing the story, I wanted every piece of Evelyn that I could get, but I kept that moment of going in and being with her forever.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
until after I had finished the manuscript and Patria had signed off on the book.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
And so I went very early one morning because I felt that for both Evelyn and myself, this felt like a new chapter for both of us.
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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her
And I wanted to be with her before that chapter opened up.