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Tuesday 2 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Local
Tengaru and Elijah Ataera playing marbles while the grownups clean up after a fire that burnt the Ataera family home to the ground last week. TURAMA PHOTOGRAPHY 20052913
A week after the house he built burnt to the ground, Papa Teina Ataera Snr is so overwhelmed by the aro’a extended to his family that he can’t finish a thank you without getting choked up.
A week after the house he built burnt to the ground, Papa Teina Ataera Snr is so overwhelmed by the aro’a extended to his family that he can’t finish a thank you without getting choked up.
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