Private Leo, my imaginary father
- Written by: Kevin John Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
Leo Brophy, on right, pictured in Darwin during the war. Author providedMy mother fell in love with my father, Leo, at a Melbourne suburban dance hall in 1946. He was 26, handsome, athletic, smart, a newly minted war veteran, and his grin was infectious. They were a dazzling couple, as their later wedding photos show. Many decades on my mother...