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Alex probably felt home when she came to Australia because we don't generally inquire into people's past we accept
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people as we find them and when she came to the Sunshine Coast that was the that
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was the attitude of all the people that she met she was able to live a normal life and raise her CH raise her kids and
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there was nobody here to hassle her and she was able to get on Alex's house was always full of animals and children she
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was very full-on very high energy she had to be to cope with the lifestyle that she led I think she was a super mom
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I uh I would would really honestly say there wouldn't be many mothers on the planet better than she was Alex's past
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was a secret to us no one knew anything other than she was an American um and we never bothered to
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question her as to what her Roots were or or why she was here I knew that she didn't have
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a close relationship with her family and she didn't want to get back in touch with them but I didn't know the reason
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why my first reaction when Alex was arrested was one of amazement and admiration when you look at it a 100
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pound woman from South Carolina in the USA was able to stay away from theth authorities longer than what Osama Bin
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Laden could Alex is one of a kind she's one in a million she's extraordinary she has given up her whole
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life to save a baby that in itself is an amazing achievement to actually then not
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get caught and move from continent to continent to continent and give up all her friends all her family have no
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support she handled whatever was put in front of her and kept moving forward she's an extraordinary woman she was my
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energy she was my inspiration and I miss her terribly every day I think we all do
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in a way she added she added a spark to everybody's life that's gone now and we want to back