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I was workingwith a couple
of women who were managing a
diabetic support group, a support
group for people with diabetes.
We were going up to the other
end of the island that was
about two or three hours drive.
Somehow, I ended up driving
the big troop carrier. Amazingly
enough, we started with three
people, ended up with about
15 including my two kids - they
were always coming with me.
Anyway, driving, driving, driving,
we get to this big, what we call a
jump up, a bit over a sandy rise.
BANG! Straight into this wallaby,
killed it. I was traumatised! I was
a vegetarian, my oldest son was
traumatised because he hated
seeing things hurt. But the rest of
the peoplewhowere therewere so
happy. That story is still told today,
how after all those years, Robyn
finally did something useful.
That was a real wake up, I thought
they were just laughing at me,
which they were, but the council
president came around and
said ‘finally, Yapa, you’re doing
something useful, thank you,
thank you, thank you’. I went:
‘OK, if I’d have known it was
that easy I would have run over a
few kangaroos a bit earlier!’ ‘
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