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My favourite speech has to be the one when her son got lost in the desert.
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Talking to Today presenter John Humphrys, Phil Cameron, father of Grant Cameron, said his son was "taken to the desert... and tortured".
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To make the evening a bit longer, the BLO grafted on a prelude with a related biblical subject: an English translation of "Hagar's Lament, " an early song by Franz Schubert, which depicts Sarah's handmaid Hagar, who has been driven into the desert by Sarah, mourning the imminent death of her son, Ishmael, from thirst.
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Then, as if to permanently seal her hold on her tortured son, Janet Fischl committed suicide by smashing her VW bus into the only tree on a desert road near her home.
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