Peter Goers

No, no.

It's, I think, had several owners and...

The current owners, Mike and Sue O'Kelly, he's a Vietnam veteran, live there with two daughters and two granddaughters.

And yet it's not a big house.

It's just an ordinary L-shaped suburban house in Woodville.

I had a contact, a neighbour we've remained friends with who's still there, and she put me in contact with these people and I went to visit them and said... I had actually returned to the house years before, 20 years before.

A listener rang my show one night and said, I think I'm living in a house you once lived in.

I said, how did you know?

She said, your library stamp is on a wardrobe door.

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And so I had the rare experience of going back to a house that you've grown up in, which is extraordinary.

You always think it's so much smaller than you remember because you were small and everywhere you look there are memories.

There's a sort of palimpest of memories in a house that you've once lived in.

What pictures do you have in your head of that house, Peter?

Jarrah floors that have been a wedding present from rallies in Western Australia.

Wow.

The memory I have is love.

You know, my sister and I were raised with love, which is the greatest gift a person can ever have, Richard.

It was a place of love, laughter and occasional tears, and it was a place of some struggle, of course, but it was a place of...

comfort and reassurance.