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The place where I grew up
Towns change, but in our minds they stay as we left them. Venetia Sherson revisits her hometown, Te Aroha, nearly 60 years on. I am walking down Rewi St, past the police station and the library when a memory comes flooding back. It is 1965, I am 17, …