This story was originally published on Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission.​A remarkable personal essay by Westport novelist Becky Manawatu on her sister who married a gang member. My sister married a Mongrel Mob member more than 10 years ago. It's not that my sister and I don't love each other, it's just that we've long lived in separate worlds. We'd see each other when I returned and then we didn't, and we didn't and we didn't. But, faar, some people: "This is my sister," Nic would say.

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