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A young man expresses his shock at finding his ‘homophobic’ married father on Grindr – years after an older man ‘disowned’ him for claiming to be gay. Speaking to Kyle and Jackie O, the man known only as Jacob said that one day he clicked on his father’s headless profile while he was browsing the popular hook-up app. He didn’t recognize his father’s body from the pictures, but couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something all too familiar about him. ‘They have one of the en suite bathrooms that goes through the walk-in closet – I think it looks like my parents’ house,’ she said. A man has told Kyle and Jackie O about finding his father on Grindr – even though the man is still married to his mother “I clicked on the profile to see if it was my dad,” he said. The young man went on to explain that his parents seemed as happy as ever, and had been together for 27 years. “I...

Load Later, Dawes became the inspiration for Kate Grenville astronomer Daniel Rooke di Lieutenant (2008), before appearing as herself, instructs Elizabeth Macarthur in stargazing, at Room Made of Leaves (2020). And at Ashley Hay’s Body in the Cloud (2010), Dawes is one of three characters united by their attraction to stars. Others are 1930s bridge workers and modern bankers. Dawes described Sydney Harbor as having “a few tricks” to its appearance, “like the inside of a telescope”. Despite being separated by time, all three miraculously see the same fallen man. It’s surprising how often astronomy appears in fiction about death. In the work of Kathleen Watson Broken Dream House (1908), astronomer Eric was the only child of a single mother. His career epitomizes his lofty ideals, but his obsession with heroism has devastating consequences. D’Arcy Niland writes about a girl who learns to live without her father at Call Me When The Cros...

Inspiring burn victim Turia Pitt recalls the horrific moments she nearly killed herself during the early stages of her recovery. In 2011, the 34-year-old mining engineer survived the odds after getting caught in a bushfire while competing in an ultramarathon in Western Australia, but suffered horrific burns on 64 per cent of his body. Opening up about the aftermath of the tragedy 11 years later, the mother-of-two said she ‘wanted to die’ during the early stages of her hospitalization. Inspiring burn victim Turia Pitt recalls the horrific moments she nearly killed herself during the early stages of her recovery. Speaking to Jess Rowe on her podcast The Big Talk Show, Turia explained that she and her father were “very logical and practical” by nature, and she told him she wanted to die because “she would know where she came from”. ‘I said, ‘I want to kill myself, I don’t want to be here” he recalls. ‘And my dad said,...