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CALIFORNIA DREAMING

While on a recent holiday visiting my wife’s parents in Los Angeles, I was driving down their street in the hot summer sun. Just five houses down from their place was a bright green 2015 Hellcat and an F250 with a car trailer. I parked up and walked back to see what had brought forth this beauty in a neighbourhood dominated by Lexus and Mercedes.

It turns out the house is owned by ex-pat Kiwi Chris Chapman and his American wife, Kelly. Chris has lived stateside since

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