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When they buried our friend Haami Moeke Snr QSM, it was entirely fitting that he should be taken to his final resting place in his aging diesel van. We friends, Juliet and I stood next to each other watching as the pallbearers carried him between a garland of fierce young warriors performing the haka.
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