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Etching the future

he idea of getting a moko kauae came to Ariana Tiako in a dream. She envisioned two lizards, a bright green male and a paler female. The female lizard was hapu (pregnant) and Ariana took care of her, while the male lizard slowly walked up towards her chin. Moko, or mokomoko, is the Māori word for lizard, and when

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