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  • Your Home and Garden

    SLICE of HEAVEN

    Aug 24, 2022 4 minutes
    Text Shelley Tustin
    Photography
    Babiche Martens

    Distance, as they say, makes the heart grow fonder. The old adage is a truth lived by many expat Kiwis, but the luckiest ones get to keep this rosy view long after they return home. Such is the case for Kate and Kris, whose memories of an idyllic Kiwi childhood have been trumped by the charm of their current life, one of barefoot bliss with their two girls in a sunny Devonport weatherboard house that’s within a sandy stone’s throw of the beach.

    No place like home

    Covid brought many globe-trotting Kiwis back to New Zealand, but for Kate and Kris Sumner-Brown

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