Growing up

Many years ago, while I was eating a plum, I accidentally swallowed the stone in the middle. When my mother found out, she sent me outside to the flower garden and told me to turn into a tree.

*Leone, New Plymouth

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How historian Deidre Brown reunited two families 220 years after Te Pahi’s extraordinary act

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Writer_contributor Morgan Johnston