Tragic, but the inevitable conclusion of a human disaster that gradually drove all of Ian's friends away and then lingered iridescently in their memories.Karen had much to fill me in on, she said, but she was now reassessing a lot of her own assumptions about her brother's life and death But occasionally, I played devil's advocate and asked: is it possible they genuinely don't know who did this to Ian?Karen's response never changed: if Haileybury didn't keep notes of her parents' 1988 meeting with principal Michael Aikman, it was just as bad as covering it up, because the school could no longer rule out the possibility that Ian's abuser had caused further harm.Karen, Michael and I had all arrived at the mystery of Ian's death with misconceptions: me that Ian's was simply another tragic tale of the crimes inflicted on boys of Beaumaris Primary and the St Kilda Little League, Michael that he alone was to blame for Ian's death after putting him in the orbit of "Uncle Harold", Karen that Ian's abuse at Haileybury was the sole source of his trauma.Each of us sought answers in our own way, with mixed results but certain personal outcomes in common