"Me and another two girls, one was my age, another one was older, police grabbed all of us and took us to a police station in Fitzroy [Crossing] and then we met another boy there, they got him from Derby,"Mr Lovell said.
"And I don't know why, but it stuck to me more than the others."
"He rang the superintendent, and they said, 'If they want a job, give them a job'. And that was out of Moola Bulla."
"And these people used to say — 'You want to start a tour?'"
"And all the community, I went and talked to them. I know I'm a lucky one, you know. Everything sort of fell into place pretty good."
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