People are different but people are people

The outback

It was the first weekend of summer 20 years ago and  Christmas holidays, and we were excited. Four good friends on their first road trip into the outback! No parents for a week! It was just my best friend Donovan ( the star rugby player ), Dani ( his nice but princess-like girlfriend ) Ruby ( my girlfriend and the school’s cleverest girl ) and me, Angelo. I’ve always been quite the worry wart, and I wasn’t sure this road trip was the best idea. Two guys and two girls – was this going to work in the outback? But it was summer and school was over, so I didn’t care. I should have. Four friends left together on that Sunday, and four friends returned to Sydney a week later. But not the same four people…

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