But on a sunny day earlier this year, she came inside after tending the garden.

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She reported the two had just had a conversation and she went inside, but came back out after hearing a splash and saw him at the bottom of the pool.

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She came to a stop along the inside wall with a trail of debris covering about half the home straightaway behind her.

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Then she and her father watched as two officers walked inside and came out with their arms full.

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The clover print grew out of a trip to Austria, where she came across a tiny heart-shaped paperweight with a four-leaf clover inside.

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"The health workers then came here asking questions, like if we had diarrhoea, " she explains inside their rundown family home as her son, now fully recovered, plays nearby.

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