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By John Allin

More than 35 years after one in all Australia's so much baffling and brazen baby abductions, journalist John Allin back to Adelaide to speak with Greg and Christine Gordon.

In this compelling and deeply own tale, Allin tells how an easy yet important present stored their daughter Kirste's disappearance excessive in his brain for therefore many years.

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He surprised himself with a couple of involuntary breaths and realised he was fighting his own emotions. At least there would be some moments to reflect quietly in the taxi. Rummaging around in the side pocket of his bag he found an old pack of Marlboro, shook out a cigarette and lit it with a shaking hand. It tasted foul. He rarely smoked but he needed something. There'd be time for a couple of beers in the plane, he figured. He felt drained and reminded himself to stay detached. The taxi driver took the narrow road through the grape country and soon had to contend with the peak-hour traffic to Adelaide Airport.

Occasionally the bottle would catch the eye of visitors who would ask why an empty bottle of shiraz cabernet from the 1970s was sitting with the geisha girl from Osaka, the African elephant from Bulawayo, the phallic wooden carving from Goroka, and other tangible reminders of reporting assignments in faraway places. The reporter would tell the story of the gift; of the parents and the lost little girl. Without exception, all who heard the tale would hang on every word, empathise with Greg and Christine, wonder about the fate that befell Kirste and Joanne, and remind themselves how precious life is.

And they spared a solemn thought for Kirste and her friend Joanne who, on an ordinary afternoon nine years earlier, had gone from being friends in frilly dresses to forever-lost girls snatched by an evil man while a grandstand of fans watched the football. They were two beloved little innocents, familiar only to family and friends, who became known to the nation through curt descriptions in police bulletins, and their pictures in the newspapers - forever frozen in childhood, in the last-photos-taken before their abduction The friends around that table in 1982 agreed that the '73 shiraz cabernet was a lovely drop.

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