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fromThe New Yorker
6 days agoGrowing Up as the Child of Radical Revolutionaries
A childhood spent in hiding shaped by parents' involvement in a radical revolutionary group and their subsequent life as fugitives.
When a neatly dressed man in his 60s walked into Dee Why Police Station in NSW to hand himself in, police were dumbfounded. Darko Desic: a prison escapee who was featured on Australia's Most Wanted, and had been on the run from police since busting out from Grafton Prison, using a hacksaw and bolt cutters three decades earlier. Surviving on little more than his wits, charm and guile, Darko dodged numerous hair-raising close calls over the years.