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And what were the stories that he told about his family?

Oh gosh, where do I start?

His parents had died in a sailing accident off the coast of New Zealand.

Now this story got more and more developed and he added bits over time.

So they died in a sailing accident.

He was a kid, like a baby or two, like a small kid.

His sisters, his two or three sisters had survived.

And this was off the coast of New Zealand, where they'd grown up on a small island.

This is Charlie, an English woman Hamish dated between the end of his marriage to Bech

Rosen and his time with Tracy Hall.

They met through a dating app in London in 2015.

And then he said this thing about him having to move to Australia and being brought up

by an aunt and uncle who didn't like him, but they favored his sisters.

They didn't like him at all.

And he was kind of left out.

But he said he had a very good friend who was one of four boys.

And he said this friend, his parents took him into the wing because the parents already

had four boys in the house.

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