Then if what you say is true...
God was merciful to me...
and rescued me out of there and back to the land of my ancestors...
Tennessee Nana UE
I was puzzled in your earlier post about your reference to China re: my migration path to NZ. On reflection it occurs to me, Nana, that you might have had me confused with NZERFROMHK, who is Chinese, posting from the South Island.
> and rescued me out of there and back to the land of my ancestors...
Twenty years ago when I first came to NZ, it was on the cusp of some really fundamental social changes. Two years later, those changes were more-or-less embedded, and since then they have well-and-truly gelled.
Twenty years ago there was no need for the Guardian Angels here. Now there is, and we are getting busier.
I became a Guardian Angel, in part, because my wife got stuck as an innocent bystander in the middle of a knifing / gunplay incident in Henderson — unheard of in NZ not so long ago. I had never felt so helpless in my life as that time, listening in on my cellphone — I was in Taupo on business — to her blow-by-blow report. Terrifying.
NZ is certainly still Godzone, but it isn’t the same wonderful place that I remember when I first got off the aeroplane. Doubtless the change would be even more noticeable for yourself.
Happy Christmas
DieHard