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    Aug 14, 2022 4 minutes

    Letters to the Editor

    SWEET MOTHER/DAUGHTER BOND

    ● Winning letter

    Kerre’s column (NZWW, August 8) reminded me so much of my own experience and the last paragraph in particular made me smile.

    A couple of years after my husband suddenly died on January 1, 2016, I decided to undertake some online dating. I had a policy not to date anyone who lived outside of Auckland, where I was living at the time, as I have an elderly mother. As luck would have it, I met a lovely man who lived in Hawke’s Bay but travelled to Auckland quite often. We started dating and developed a good

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