With the 20th year anniversary of that terrible event upon us, Natalie, now 48, still vividly recalls the night she became a widow. “We’d just had a seafood meal together.
Pregnant with our second child, I was tired, so decided to head home, while John set off to the Sari Club,” she tells New Idea magazine.
Born in Nowra, southern NSW, Natalie had met John at Kuta Beach in 1993 when she was 19, living in Jakarta. She’d later moved to Bali to join him, and they married in 1996, on her 22d birthday.
Later John, a keen surfer, established a surfboard shop in Kuta, his pride and joy. Over dinner that fateful night of October 12, 2002, he’d been enthusing about his new factory, making surfboards for the shop.
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