An introduction to what comes next
It’s like dropping a long fishing line into myriads of silver fish, every one a fact, and the line is your story. There are dozens of fish in this school and your line has dozens of hooks. and when you’ve drawn your story onboard, hand over hand, right to the very end, all the fish are caught.
This mystery won’t go away and even after identifying the Somerton Man as Carl Webb we still do not have a complete picture of the events leading up to his death, let alone what came after.
Dozens of enthusiasts have made well-researched contributions to the various blogs over the years but as yet they have been unable to link them up into one coherent story.
So we’ll give it another go – chapter by chapter, here, all fiction: any resemblance to persons living or dead being entirely coincidental.
The two great temptations for some young Australian women in the months after Japan surrendered were to join the Americans in their cocaine and booze fuelled celebrations or sign up with the Australian Communist Party as a sympathetic response to the thousands of innocent men women and children killed by the Americans in their bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
This where we meet the nurse and the engineer.
The Somerton Man .. 
Interesting to know about Alf’s stand on politics. Perhaps Alf and Jessie were of the same persuasion?
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