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I wasn't pointing the finger at Jake, ... Jake didn't know. You don't know what you don't know.

— Alan Duff Author Alan Duff wouldn't write Once Were Warriors again (2019)

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I wrote the story on behalf of the Beths, and the Graces, and the Boogies, and everybody else in that situation.

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