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Out in the open

It was almost by accident that Napier’s Eva Bradley and Brad Turfrey ended up in their forever home. “We’d been looking for something on the hill overlooking the water, but when someone told me about this section and I suggested it to Brad, he said, ‘There’s absolutely no way I’m moving to Bay View — it’s way too far from the CBD,’” says Eva. Nevertheless, one day she lured him out under the pretense

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