When I parked outside her cabin, Gillian was already waiting in the doorway. With Gillian, there was often a guru in the picture somewhere. There was also a guru she was attracted to here – someone who promised an alternative way to treat her disease, or even cure it. There were several reasons behind the move: she wanted the peace and obscurity of the Adelaide hills and she found the cool winters and dry summers less aggravating to her multiple sclerosis than the steamy warmth of her native Grafton. Gillian had come over to plan her move to South Australia to write her novel Foal’s Bread. In the caravan park she would have birds, a creek, fresh air, and rates an artistic writer could afford. I’d suggested the location because I knew she’d prefer it to a city hotel room. She was staying at a cabin at the Brown Hill Creek Caravan Park in the Adelaide foothills. I first met Gillian in 2004 on a sparkling November day.
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