with special care. And remember the tape I had of your voices? That was the little pathway you have taken to America. I got out of the bath. I had been well off before, but now there was an added something, in my blood it seemed, a welcome, giddy lightness that had reached into every fibre. I thought, ‘In the end, e hoa ma, when we say “goodbye”, just give me more of this good intoxication that goes with the tangs of tropical fruits, the feel of your firm full handclasps, that certain stimulation of the well-ripened pot of tea, the enchanting harmony of mountains and glaciers and rivers and lakes and hills, hills, hills, the elegant grace of the taller pongas in the ngahere, even the physiologic confusion of too many fish-and-chips, the fun of seeing all the bombs on the road, and yes, give me more of the magic that goes with the bite of the Wellington wind, and with that wrench in my chest at a tangi. And that wonderful spell of the out-pouring of good-will and fellow-feeling and generosity and utter warmth given to me by my little ones. That's you!’ When I left your country, I brought a lot more of all this back with me. Sometimes, even at night, as now, I sense the welcome echoes of the chorus—Riu wanting my hand, Phyllis running up for my bag, young Sarah, Garry, Davina, Gilly, Gus, Lucy, Karani, Chris, Terry, Richard, Sophie, Maureen, including the subdued sound of you, Peter, walking beside me without a word. Peter, you take my hand this time. Of course you're three years older now, and there's all this space in the way. Still, maybe you are pleased to remember to kuramahita, Peter, and will be, even when you are a man. I hope so. An even bigger hope is that I have left each of you with some lasting feeling that you are glad to keep. You gave me quite a few. And then, I hope that one day, I will be seeing your bright, winning smiles again, grown even fuller, and that your eyes will still be flashing. Until then, Arohanui, Mrs Brereton.

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