HARDEST TACKLE
Dec 02, 2019
3 minutes
BY BEN JHOTY
The schoolyard can be a tough place for anyone who’s a little different. Imagine then, what it was like for a tall, skinny Fijian kid growing up in Perth in the mid-nineties. With his rangy body, black skin and wild locks, the young Nic Naitanui could scarcely have been more distinct from his classmates. A tough place? Hell is another way to describe it.
The thing about being different, of course, is that it makes you a target. A uniquely vulnerable one at that. Because for those that
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