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I met Keith at the first dance I ever went to at Pioneer Hall in Wollongong, when I was 14.

A blond-haired boy in jeans and a bright white penguin T-shirt sauntered over to me and asked me to dance. We danced together for the rest of the night,then he walked me into town and bought me a milkshake.

That was 58 years ago.