New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Finding new FRIENDS

Musings from our favourite Kiwi funnywoman

At family gatherings, my adorable great-uncle Frank – a wise and witty raconteur in a family not short of them – was fond of saying at the end of a story, “Oh, well… you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family.”

This was a potentially disastrous thing to say in a room full of relatives,

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