“My fellow students thought I was that person, the Ihimaera, when I was really this person, Witi Smiler. Witi Ihimaera was really a construct, somebody I had created to do the mahi he does.” — Witi Ihimaera Smiler, in an extract from ‘Te Kaikaukau / The Swimmer’.
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