My Own Personal Earth Angel
Mine for such a short but monumental time
The year was 1991 and it was a year that changed my life. Like ships passing in the night, one man unknowingly saved me with kindness, love and intense passion.
Here is my story.
My husband and I drove into the small town of Broome, in the far north of Western Australia. I was excited as this was a town that held many memories for me. My husband had never been here before but I had spent a number of years residing in this glorious town a few years back. I was looking forward to visiting old ground.
We were only going to be here for two and a half weeks as my husband had a couple of weeks work and then we’d head back to Kununurra, where we currently lived. As I wasn’t working at the time, being back in Broome was going to be a wonderful vacation for me, or so I believed, as we drove down the Main Street and pulled into the motel in which we had a room booked. Home for a few short weeks.
However, the trip did not turn out anything like I imagined.
My husband was a wonderful man, when sober, but get a few alcoholic drinks into him and he changed drastically. He became mean, argumentative and usually violent, like the flicking of a light switch. Seconds was all it took.
