Whānau have their stories, and my father tells his oddly sometimes, like they're an afterthought. They're not, though: I can sense it. They are things collected over years, offered up lightly but carried heavily.
He grew up in Scotland, moving often from village to village as his own father, a policeman, was moved from job to job. I can’t tell you which …
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