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HE DIED WHERE HE WAS HAPPIEST

Ben’s heartbroken mom, Lualle Bezuidenhout, and his sisters, Abbigail and Tehillah.

(LUBA LESOLLE, SUPPLIED)

LIKE any parent who has a child working overseas she was counting down the days until her son returned home for a visit.

Lualle Bezuidenhout and 20-year-old Ben would message each other every day while he was in Greece where he worked as a deckhand on a catamaran that hosted tourists.

“My routine was waking up and messaging him,” Lualle (44) says. “It was a thing between me and him, morning and evening. Even if it was just, ‘have a lovely day’ or ‘I love you, Mom’. It was a thing for us to communicate daily.”

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