New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Ticking off the MILESTONES

The beloved broadcaster’s reflections on life

My little girl Tommie turns 21 this week. I remember her as a three-year-old tightly gripping my fingers in hospital after I’d had open-heart surgery. She said nothing.

I’d been worried I mightn’t survive the

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