EILEEN Lonergan might never have known the extreme love her husband felt for her when they disappeared from a dive trip on the Great Barrier Reef.
On the last page of the now infamous diary belonging to Thomas Lonergan, a "pledge of devotion" was made to his wife just two weeks before their disappearance on St Crispins Reef. But the last line is unfinished, his writing halted mid-sentence.
It is the same diary that has sparked the theories that Tom Lonergan may have killed his wife in a bizarre suicide bid after he was depressed about an impending memory loss.
The other theory that sprang from the pages was that the American sweethearts had faked their disappearance in a bid to escape returning to their responsibilities in America.
This week Eileen's parents John and Kathy Hains opened the couple's diaries in a bid to finally dispel the myths.
"You just look at these unfilled pages at the back of the diary and you look at the last sentence and it is not finished," Mrs Hains said.
"It looks like he has been interrupted, perhaps by Eileen. Men find it hard to express their feelings and she probably never knew."
For almost three weeks, the Hains sat through a trial praying that Jack Nairn, the man accused of causing the deaths of their daughter and her husband, be found not guilty. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court jury in Cairns took just over two hours to answer their prayers.
Mr Hains left no doubt about his view of the fate of Tom and Eileen when they failed to return from their dive on January 25, 1998.
"Like the judge said in the summation. Reason. Reason this out people. Think about this. It is not reasonable to think that they faked their deaths. Basically, he just flat out told them,",christian louboutin boots; he said.
He also said he would defy anyone to swim against the half-knot current that would have ripped through the area as it passed over the 2000-foot drop on the edge of St Crispins Reef.
"I didn't think that anyone on that jury found him (Jack Nairn) not guilty based on the fact they thought that those kids were alive and faked their death," he said.
"They found him not guilty because the charges against him were not reasonable.
"Jack Nairn was not solely to blame for their deaths. Simple as that. That is why they came back so fast."
The Hains said while they wished someone could be held accountable, they realised the Lonergans died after a "series of errors".
Mrs Hains said Mr Nairn was suffering in a way that no-one could understand.
Mr Nairn said after his acquittal this week that the Hains' compassion,High Heels for her, forgiveness and support was the only thing that got him through the ordeal.
The Hains hope that after all that has happened, Australians will remember Tom and Eileen as a couple who fell in love with Australia in one week.
"They were people who really loved life and lived it day by day," Mrs Hains said.
The Hains said they had relied on their faith to get them through the days in which they had to sit in the small courtroom and look at their daughter's christian louboutins and hear excerpts from her diary read aloud.
They also said when "the kids" were first missing, they were overwhelmed by the compassion extended to them by Australians.
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