New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

FULL STEAMPUNK AHEAD! Purple shows her true colours

Where did my name Purple come from? Very once upon a time, I was going through a phase in the late 1980s where everything I owned was purple. Plus, me, my flatmate, her best friend, a girl on a course I was doing and a girl at my part-time job all had the same given name so it was just easy to be Purple. It’s unique and it stuck.

I grew up in L&P town

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