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AUSSIE SURVIVOR ‘WE’RE HOME NOW’

I opened the door to a tirade of abuse and violence

My skin prickled as I peered out the bedroom window. A dark figure lurked in the bushes.

Clutching my daughters Mia*, then 13, and Amanda*, 22, I rang the police again.

It was May 2019 and I knew who was watching – my ex-boyfriend Matt*, then 40.

We’d been living under siege for months.

Once, I’d lived in a house full of love with my husband, Simon*. Tragically, one night in 2003, while watching telly, Simon suffered

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