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Polynesian Family Life
Oural tradition plays a massive part of polynesian family life. My mam and her family are from the society islands in tahiti, french polynesia. Any stories about the family were told with the added flourishes of the narrator. It made for compelling story telling, but the kind where facts couldn't be checked. So you can imagine my scepticism seven years ago when i told my grandfather i was moving to london,. And he told me we had moved to england. Unconvinced, yet, nevertheless, armed with no information other than a namale address, i moved to the u k. And wrote to a man in tunbridge wells called der
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