Chapter Five: The Miss Mangonui Beauty Pageant
They're not girls, they're Blokes
When Pip—a common nickname in these parts, for Phillip or Phillipa—the owner and operator of the Mangonui Hotel, Pub,and Café, learned that Beau’s mum was a hairstylist from Palm Springs—everybody in New Zealand says “mum”—she made a beeline for Whatuwhiwhi and waltzed right into our little house without knocking. Many folk …
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