Brendan L
My dad worked in the same factory job for nearly 40 years. He worked 10 hour days, catching the train or running from Manurewa…
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Anton T
I remember becoming a father for the first time and it was the best thing! He’s 10 now. I remember the car ride home…
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Michael D
Growing up I lived with my grandparents and saw so much violence that I thought it was normal. My own parents relationship was one…
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Ivan
My dad died when I was four or five leaving mum with five of us kids. I ended up in a children’s home for…
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Bronwyn R
Education was not important to my family, but life skills were. Dad taught us so many skills that today people are going to uni…
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Pearl M
I was eight when I found out I was adopted. My adoptive mum always wanted me to search for my birth parents but I…
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Daniel B
Mum got pregnant to a Caribbean man and the relationship didn’t work so they separated. She was a single pakeha mum, pregnant with me,…
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Mathew N
I’m so proud of my kids. I was 31 when my first was born. Halfway through the pregnancy, the scan revealed that there was…
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Shaun T
Part 1 “My daughter turned 24 in September, but I’ll never forget her birth. After a long labour, she entered the world at 7:23pm….
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Joseph
My specialists told me that diabetes is part of life now, “you have to live this way and it’s forever.” I realised this was…
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