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  • Saturday, 27 August 2005 12.30 p.m. NZ time THE PROMISE When I was nine years old, I lived on Lashbrook Avenue in El Monte California. It was an asphalt street with no sidewalks. There were ten or twelve guys…

  • Saturday, 20th August, 2005 7.45 p.m. NZ time My First Step Dad John A. Bunch Sometime in 1942 my mom remarried. Her new husband’s name was John Andrew Bunch. He was 27 years old, and my mom was 26. I don’t…

  • Thursday, 11 August 2005 7.15 p.m. NZ time MY FIRST GIRLFRIEND We had moved to East Los Angeles. My mom, my grandmother, my great-grandmother, my aunties and me, were all still one big happy family. Just two …

  • Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11.30 a.m. NZ time Marie’s Birthday Weekend Mari and I just returned from a 4-day birthday weekend in Tauranga, New Zealand. For Mari’s birthday present, our friends, Lindsay and Lynne…

  • Thursday, 4 August 2005 10.00 a.m. NZ time My Grandmother Lucy When I was growing up we always had chickens in our backyard. Always had fresh eggs and occasionally we would have fried chicken. I still love fr…

  • Tuesday, 2 August 2005 8.30 a.m. NZ time It poured down rain all last night, but today the sun is sparkling off the sea, bouncing around the trees, throwing rainbow prisms of colour that go ricocheting off the wet, …

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