STEPHEN MACMAHON was anxious as he sat in the small reception room waiting for the man who had haunted him for about 20 years. A week before he had phoned the man's psychiatric practice only to be told he needed a referral. Undeterred, he got one, and now was about to confront the man who had stolen his childhood, his life, and still seemed to infect his very being.
At last the door opened and a tall, elderly man stepped out and, in a very gentle voice, told him to come into his surgery. At that instant, as far as Stephen MacMahon was concerned, anything was possible.
William Birnbauer
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William Birnbauer is a reporter for The Age (Melbourne, Australia).
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