I understand my grandfather's grin now

In 1981, I escaped from my father’s house (of abject misery ) to go live with my mother in Tairawhiti, Gisborne. I joined Gisborne Boys' High School in Form 3 at the start of the third term that year. My maternal grandparents lived about 200 meters from the high school. For the first year or two, I'd ride my bike from Kaiti, where we lived, to my grandparents’, store the bike in the woodshed. I'd…