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Daisy and Molly Daughter dies with her story still incomplete
 * By Tony StephensJanuary 15, 2004 ||  || [[image:http://www.smh.com.au/images/icon_print.gif width="15" height="13" caption="Printer friendly version"]] || [| Print this article] ||
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 * Quiet dignity of the desert women . . . the author Doris Pilkington Garimara, author of //Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence//, with her mother, Molly Kelly. ||

Molly Kelly, the Aboriginal heroine of the film //Rabbit-Proof Fence//, has died with one regret: she was never reunited with the daughter taken from her 60 years ago. Molly died in her sleep at Jigalong, Western Australia, after going for her afternoon nap on Tuesday. She was believed to be 87. In 1931 the then Molly Craig, probably 14, and two younger girls were taken from their families in the East Pilbara and transported to Moore River, north of Perth. The three girls escaped the next day and began their walk home to Jigalong. The journey of 1600 kilometres took nine weeks and ranks as one of the most remarkable feats of endurance and courage in Australian history, and dramatised a dark side of the Australian story. Molly was taken to the Moore River settlement again in 1940, this time with her two little daughters. She ran away in 1941, carrying 18-month-old Annabelle and leaving Doris, four, to fend for herself with a relative's help. It was 21 years before Doris was reunited with her mother, a meeting which led to Doris Pilkington Garimara's book //Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence//and then the movie directed by Phillip Noyce.