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Daylene Barlow can’t remember exactly what she and her mother, Theresa Binge, talked about the last time they spoke in early 2003.

They talked about everything, and nothing at all; little things and big things, she says. More than two decades later, she wishes the conversation had never ended, and that she had told her mother how much she meant to her.

Had Barlow known what would come in the months after, she would have bundled her mother into her car and taken her to Coffs Harbour, where she was living at the time, without a second thought.

“It’s like they say – one minute you’re there, and the next minute you’re gone,” Barlow, 45, told the Herald .

“We were real close.”

Around three months after that conversation, on July 29, Binge’s body was found in a s

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