We are delivered at our respective stations after many journeys. The decay of years means we forget most of the lines we've boarded to get there, or the lines we never took. Most decisions are so trivial, so routine that we never take note. Sometimes though, there’s one moment, something so significant that you can follow the thread from that moment right to this room. The reason Zach Hope now lives in Darwin working with words come down to one moment, at 9.35pm on November 2008.

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Zach told his story at the SPUN: True Stories Told in the Territory themed 'Uncovered' at Northern Territory Library at Parliament House on 17 March 2017.