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Nerissa Ann Love

It was just four weeks before the next big day in her short and happy life. Australian-born Wellington typist Nerissa Ann Love was looking forward to her 20th birthday, on January 22, 1954 - even though she knew she'd be celebrating it without having her fiancé, Bob Blair, by her side.

Nerissa planned a quite Friday evening family event at her home on Compton Crescent in Taita in the Lower Hutt. Bob would be almost 7000 miles away, in East London in South Africa, playing cricket with the New Zealand touring team.

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But a little more than a month after she had turned 20, Bob would be back in New Zealand, and the pair could start planning for their wedding.

Nerissa Love, left, with her mother Mabel and elder sister Valda

In the meantime, unbeknownst to Bob, Nerissa would have one last break as a single young lady.

She would spend Christmas in the bustling big city and bright lights of Auckland, 650 miles north of her sleepy home town. The lure for N