Witi Ihimaera
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I wish I could say that I had a rapturous return. Instead, Nanny Flowers growled at me for taking so long getting home, saying, ‘I don’t know why you wanted to go away in the first place. After all —’ ‘I know, Nanny,’ I said. ‘There’s nothing out there that I can’t get here in Whangara.’ Bang came her hand. ‘Don’t you make fun of me too,’ she said, and she glared at Koro Apirana. ‘Huh?’ Koro said. ‘I didn’t say nothing.’ ‘But I can hear you…-
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I was two years with Jeff in Papua New Guinea and while they were productive years, they were not always happy. Jeff’s father couldn’t come down to Port Moresby to meet us but his mother, Clara, did. Although Jeff had told her I was a Maori it was obvious that I was still too dark. As soon as I stepped off the plane I could almost hear her wondering, ‘Oh, my goodness, how am I going to explain this to the women at the Bridge Club?’ But she was polite and gracious and kept up a lively chatter on the…
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The next year Kahu turned four and I decided it was about time I went out to see the world. Koro Apirana thought it was a good idea but Nanny Flowers didn’t like it at all. ‘What’s wrong with Whangara?’ she said. ‘You got the whole world right here. Nothing you can get anywhere else that you can’t get here. You must be in trouble.’ I shook my head. ‘No, I’m clean,’ I answered. ‘Then there must be a girl you’re running away from. She looked at me suspiciously, and…
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