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Left: Palmerston artist and author Alicia Hall holds together the huge pile of knitting she has created in the years since her son’s death. Top right: Craig Hall reads to his nephews Oliver (then 1) left, and Jack Taylor, then 3, in a photograph from 2016. Bottom right: Craig and his nephews as depicted in Art Musketeers. Photos: Wyatt Ryder/supplied

Just months after her daughter was released from hospital with brain damage, Alicia Hall’s son died on the way home from a party in Dunedin.