Tiny love stories

Longtime lovebirds

Thirty years ago, Ronnie was speaking at an event in Newcastle when Aunty Kerrie first saw him. “I want that one,” she thought. He was a T-uhoe leader and “a speaker that others would be jealous of … magnificent and beautiful in his language”.

Then they met.

“Kia ora, I’m Ronnie.”

“Kia ora, I’m your next wife.”

Today, Aunty Kerrie calls out from the kitchen, “Are you happy I snagged you all those