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‘Corey was just a tourist’: two decades after the Bali bombings, the grief remains

When Kevin Paltridge’s son Corey was killed in the 2002 Bali bombings, the devastated father turned to other Australians whose children had died suddenly to try to cope with his own loss.

He quit his job as an airline supervisor and went to work at a funeral home, where he worked until his retirement a decade ago.

“I wanted to meet people who had lost kids,” he says.

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