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The last goodbye

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This was published 17 years ago

The last goodbye

Aflight from Bangkok has landed at Zurich airport, and in the arrivals hall travellers in bright holiday clothes are hugging loved ones, grinning and holding babies. In the midst of the happy scene an elderly man is wheeled through the door and into a taxi. John Elliott has not come home and is not on holiday. He has come to Switzerland for a different reason. Accompanied by his wife, Angelika, the 79-year-old Sydney man goes straight to a hotel.